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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VI - Victory at Sea (Chapters XXIX-XXXII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This loss also meant the loss of the driving force behind the _____ invasion.
(a) Sicilian.
(b) Athenian.
(c) Greek.
(d) Spartan.

2. Polemides relates the events of the _______.
(a) Spartan society.
(b) Greek tragedies.
(c) Olympic games.
(d) Trojan War.

3. Unable to make much headway, the fleet decides to _____.
(a) Retire.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Reconfigure.
(d) Surrender.

4. Polemides is asked to kill _____.
(a) Pericles.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) The sick.
(d) His child.

5. Who wants to have Alcibiades killed?
(a) Lysander.
(b) Polemides.
(c) Jason.
(d) Pericles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Alcibiades' enemy in Athens?

2. What was the name of the man's sister?

3. Which of the following is not one of the charges brought against Alcibiades?

4. Who is referred to as the Cat's Eye?

5. In which school subject was Alcibiades "abominable"?

(see the answer key)

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