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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many pages of text does each chapter cover in "A History of My Times"?
(a) Seventy five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty five.
(d) One hundred.

2. How does Betty Radice suggest to readers that Xenophon's work should be read?
(a) As both a memoir and straight history.
(b) As a memoir instead of straight history.
(c) As neither a memoir nor straight history.
(d) As straight history instead of a memoir.

3. What is significant about Alcibiades?
(a) He is the last name mentioned in Chapter 1.
(b) He is the first name mentioned in Chapter 1.
(c) He is the only name in the book that people educated in philosophy would not recognize.
(d) He is the only name in the book that people educated in philosophy would recognize.

4. What is each one of the chapters in the second book devoted to?
(a) The description of a different military leader.
(b) The description of a different battle.
(c) The description of a different war ship.
(d) The description of a different city.

5. What event did Mania join her mercenaries for?
(a) Planning strategies for the next attack.
(b) Giving out trophies after a victory.
(c) Battering down an enemy's walls.
(d) Appointing a new commander.

6. How many politically sanctioned killings were there in the story told in Book 2, Chapter 2?
(a) More than fifteen.
(b) More than ten.
(c) At least one.
(d) None.

7. Where did Cyrus battle his brother?
(a) Susa.
(b) Cunaxa.
(c) Persepolis.
(d) Sardes.

8. How can the bibliography be described in "A History of My Times"?
(a) Slightly shorter than normal.
(b) Extremely short.
(c) Average.
(d) Extensive.

9. Which war is ending at the beginning of the fourth section?
(a) The Peloponnesian War.
(b) The Athenian civil war.
(c) The Trojan War.
(d) The Persian War.

10. Which political leadership worked on the efforts to befriend the Spartans?
(a) The Dorians.
(b) The Pericles.
(c) The assembly.
(d) The ephors.

11. How long were the sailors able to live fairly well?
(a) Most of the year.
(b) Not even one month out of the year.
(c) Half of the year.
(d) One month out of the year.

12. According to Xenophon, how many brothers are at war with each other?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

13. Where were sailors able to live fairly well?
(a) Lemnus.
(b) Chios.
(c) Imbros.
(d) Thasos.

14. How were the ships made available to Cyrus by a Spartan?
(a) Suddenly.
(b) Over a two month period.
(c) Over a two week period.
(d) One at a time.

15. What happened to the reeds in the story?
(a) They were cut in half.
(b) They were given to the soldiers.
(c) They disappeared.
(d) They multiplied.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the soldiers express agreement on the plot to raise money?

2. How is the bottom of the ranks characterized in the book?

3. When was Thibron exiled?

4. What audience is the book, "A History of My Times", trying to reach?

5. Who was Cinadon meeting when he is arrested?

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