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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were the Romans able to defeat Carthage?
(a) By learning to fight like Hannibal.
(b) By amassing a larger army.
(c) By learning to fight like Greeks.
(d) By ignoring what their training told them.

2. What does the author say is speculation?
(a) That Hannibal used slaves as spies.
(b) Hannibal was not the military genius, his brother was.
(c) Hnannibal was a copy cat.
(d) Hannibal took no prisonners.

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

4. Where were the Romans not victorious during the Second Punic War?
(a) In Spain.
(b) In Italy.
(c) In Gaul.
(d) In Africa.

5. How did Hannibal differ from other Carthaginians according to "Hannibal's Way"?
(a) He was of Roman descent.
(b) He was not rich.
(c) He was the son of a peasant.
(d) He was not very religious.

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

7. What is unsure about Fabius and Minucius' armies?
(a) If they would fight against each other.
(b) If they fight as one or separately.
(c) If they would fight one after the other.
(d) If one would be in reserve.

8. What did Hannibal's troops find in Cannae that helped them?
(a) A weaponsmith.
(b) Grain storage and supply dump.
(c) Volunteers.
(d) Horses.

9. How many soldiers survived with Varro?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 12,000.

10. Why did the Battle at Cannae have to come quickly?
(a) Both sides were low on food.
(b) Both sides were eager.
(c) Both side were tired.
(d) Both side wanted to crush the other.

11. Who set traps for Hannibal's army?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Gauls.
(c) The Moors.
(d) The Celts.

12. When did some aggressive Celts attack Hannibal?
(a) Mid December.
(b) Mid October.
(c) Mid Movember.
(d) Mid September.

13. When did the Romans try to annihilate the neighbors they had trouble with?
(a) 202 B.C.
(b) 222 B.C.
(c) 212 B.C.
(d) 232 B.C.

14. What did Hannibal lose while avoiding the Roman army?
(a) A finger.
(b) Sight in one eye.
(c) An arm.
(d) A leg.

15. What hindered Hannibal's army in previous battles against the Romans?
(a) The heat.
(b) Their slow elephant.
(c) The cold.
(d) The dampness of the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hannibal avoid Publius Scipio's army?

2. Why were the Roman soldiers reluctant to destroy crops?

3. When did Hannibal leave for Italy?

4. What was the Roman tradition when two armies came to fight together?

5. Where did Hannibal put together his army?

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