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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Athenians punish the Mytilene nobles after regaining the territory?
(a) 1,000 prominent leaders are executed and the walls of Mytilene are razed.
(b) The Athenians carry all the nobles to Athens and put them in prison.
(c) Athens declares martial law in Mytilene.
(d) They do not get punished and a general amnesty is declared for all.

2. What is commonly called the peace of Nicias by modern scholars?
(a) A time under Nicias when Sparta is afraid to attack.
(b) The treaty of alliance between Sparta and Athens during the winter of 422 to 421 BC
(c) The end of the Peloponnesian War
(d) A six-week halt to the hostilities

3. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?
(a) His arrogance
(b) His lack of troops
(c) His bad advisors
(d) His ill health

4. What happens between Sparta and Athens in 423 BC?
(a) A time out to bury their dead
(b) A truce of sorts
(c) A major battle in Attica
(d) The exchange of prisoners of war

5. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?
(a) Cyclones sweep across the eastern side of Greece.
(b) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.
(c) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.
(d) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs between Athens and Sparta during the winter of 422 BC?

2. From a more historical point of view, how does the peace of Nicias seem to scholars?

3. Why is Book 5 of the History of the Peloponnesian War such a short book?

4. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?

5. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?

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