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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IX - Tides of War (Chapters L-LIII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alcibiades has which obvious physical defect?
(a) Blind.
(b) Lisp.
(c) Hump-backed.
(d) Limp.

2. There were ____ Odrysian brothers?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

3. What type of mines were present around Maroneia?
(a) Coal.
(b) Silver.
(c) Diamond.
(d) Gold.

4. What is the narrator's Laconian name?
(a) Polaepitus.
(b) Polemidas.
(c) Polemarch.
(d) Polinicus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The injured man married _____.

2. What term is used to mean "war leader"?

3. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?

4. What is it called when a crew turns against the ship's officer(s)?

5. What is a "hetairai"?

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