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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?
(a) It is an important event that is glossed over lightly.
(b) It has nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta.
(c) It is a strange inclusion of Greek superstition.
(d) It is a nearly unique authorial digression from the history of the war itself.

2. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?
(a) Demosthenes covers up the truth.
(b) Thucydides' particular dislike for Cleon
(c) Everything is military top secret
(d) Cleon's order that nothing be written about it.

3. Why does Thucydides suddenly include more information on Peloponnesian events?
(a) He goes to Pylos and stays there for a long time.
(b) Thucydides' exile somehow gains him greater access to Peloponnesian sources.
(c) He finds a Peloponnesian collabarator.
(d) He is able to travel to Sparta under the protection of an envoy.

4. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
(b) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.
(c) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.
(d) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.

5. When Alcibiades is eventually recalled for blasphemy, what does he do?
(a) He goes to Alexandria.
(b) He flees to Sparta.
(c) He tears up the summons.
(d) He hires Socrates to defend him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?

2. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

3. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?

4. What appears to be a mistake made by the Athenian forces under Pericles?

5. Who are the main antagonists over the military strategy in 416 BC?

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