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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military involvement in 416 BC is hotly argued in Athens?
(a) Sending hoplites to guard the borders of Attica
(b) Mounting an invasion of Italy
(c) Sending a fleet again to Sicily
(d) Conscripting Helots to fight the Spartans

2. What is detailed in Book Two?
(a) The beginning history of the Peloponesian War
(b) The formula Thucydides uses for writing the remainer of the history
(c) The biographies of important individuals ca. 421 BC
(d) A complex layout of the geography of the day

3. Who are the main antagonists over the military strategy in 416 BC?
(a) Nician and Alcibiades
(b) Alexander and Phillip
(c) Thucydides and Cleon
(d) Brasias and Pericles

4. What is the main concern after Athens fortified Pylos?
(a) Leading generals fear Athenians might carry the plague.
(b) The leading general fears an Athenian advance deep into the Peloponnesus.
(c) Sparta fears that their citizens might defect.
(d) Sparta fears the Helots might join with the Athenians.

5. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(b) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(c) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.
(d) False information has Thebes invading Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Thucydides like news reporters today?

2. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?

3. Who owns the Helots?

4. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?

5. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?

(see the answer key)

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