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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hannibal encourage his soldiers to do?
(a) Be without mercy.
(b) Leave.
(c) Take slaves.
(d) Fight.

2. What was unique about the tablet Polybius studied?
(a) It was inscribed by Hannibal.
(b) It was forged by Hannibal.
(c) It was disctated by Hannibal.
(d) It was touched by Hannibal.

3. What did the Roman do when they liked something?
(a) They copied it.
(b) They called it Roman.
(c) They bought it.
(d) They destroyed it.

4. What question about Hannibal's travel is still unanswered?
(a) What clothes his army was wearing.
(b) Where he crossed the Alps.
(c) How he fed elephants.
(d) If Hannibal's family followed him.

5. What was even more difficult to do than going up icy slopes?
(a) Taming elephants.
(b) Going down rocky slopes.
(c) Going down icy slopes.
(d) Feeding horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the tablet Polybius studied tell the story of?

2. Where was Polybius of Megalopolis at the start of Chapter 1?

3. What neighbor did Rome have trouble with?

4. How was Publius Cornelius Scipio also known?

5. How did the average Roman soldier feel about the battle to come?

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