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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hannibal willing to take?
(a) Risks.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Advise.
(d) Punishment.

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

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

4. What did Hannibal want his troops to do to destabilize the Roman army?
(a) Force them out during a torrential rain.
(b) Force them out as it was sunny.
(c) Force them out at night.
(d) Force them out before breakfast.

5. What do historians agree on about Hannibal's troops?
(a) They were hungry.
(b) They were turning against themselves.
(c) They were weak.
(d) They were tired.

6. 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.

7. What language did Hannibal speak besides Carthaginian?
(a) Celt.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Greek.
(d) Roman.

8. When did the tide of the war start to turn for the Romans according to "Cannae"?
(a) 236 B.C.
(b) 226 B.C.
(c) 216 B.C.
(d) 206 B.C.

9. How many horsemen did Hannibal's army have?
(a) One for every 4 foot soldiers.
(b) One for every 15 foot soldiers.
(c) One for every 12 foot soldiers.
(d) One for every 13 foot soldiers.

10. What neighbor did Rome have trouble with?
(a) The Gauls.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Celts.
(d) The Venetians.

11. How many horsemen did the Roman Army have?
(a) Two every 13 foot soldiers.
(b) Two every 20 foot soldiers.
(c) Two every 5 foot soldiers.
(d) Two every 10 foot soldiers.

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

13. What did Hannibal count on to toughen and train his troops?
(a) The tough terrain on the way to Italy.
(b) Games during the trip to Italy.
(c) Battling small tribes on the way to Italy.
(d) A severe training program.

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

15. When did snow close the passes in the Alps?
(a) Mid November.
(b) Mid October.
(c) Mid September.
(d) Mid December.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the tide of the war start to turn for the Roman according to "Cannae"?

2. What choice did Hannibal tell his men was better that slavery?

3. What does the author say is speculation?

4. How many soldiers were taken prisoner by Hannibal during the Battle of Cannae?

5. Who set traps for Hannibal's army?

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