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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The group of retreating marines sailed on a ship that had the name of which famous Greek figure?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Hera.
(c) Athena.
(d) Pandora.

2. The man found that the city had been decimated by which disease?
(a) Plague.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Dysentery.

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

4. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.
(a) Soldier.
(b) Sailor.
(c) General.
(d) Farmer.

5. How old was the man when he died?
(a) 91.
(b) 92.
(c) 101.
(d) 88.

6. What term is used to mean "war leader"?
(a) Polemarch.
(b) Patriarch.
(c) Perimite.
(d) Parapet.

7. Which charge worried Alcibiades the most?
(a) Profanity.
(b) Impiety,
(c) Treason.
(d) Heresy.

8. What is the term used to describe the fleet of ships?
(a) School.
(b) Flotilla.
(c) Envoy.
(d) Armada.

9. Which of the following is not one of the charges brought against Alcibiades?
(a) Profanity.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Treason.
(d) Impiety.

10. What is the name of the marsh that is adjacent to the harbor?
(a) Riverside.
(b) Dockside.
(c) Fewside.
(d) Feverside.

11. Chapter XXI details the disaster on which area?
(a) Epipolae.
(b) Narnia.
(c) Sphacteria.
(d) Acarnania.

12. What is the name of the assassin that approaches Polemides?
(a) Evenrude.
(b) Kilgor.
(c) Telamon.
(d) Barrabas.

13. How much did the narrator's armor weigh?
(a) 40 lbs.
(b) 75 lbs.
(c) 60 lbs.
(d) 50 lbs.

14. One afternoon, the grandfather says that memory is a(n) ____ goddess.
(a) Queer.
(b) Unforgiving.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Fickle.

15. What is the name of the narrator's dog?
(a) Guardian.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Sentinel.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives is used to describe Alcibiades' personality?

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

3. Which of the following is discounted as a good general?

4. At this point, ____ was at the height of her power.

5. Polemides seeks help from ____ in finding his cousin.

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