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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?
(a) 421/420 BC
(b) 410/409 BC
(c) 432/431 BC
(d) 398/397 BC

2. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus
(b) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire
(c) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace
(d) It is confined to Attica

3. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) The economy is growing from sales of weapons.
(b) They are disbanding their army.
(c) They hold new elections.
(d) There is a revolt.

4. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra
(b) The Athenian fleet
(c) The money owned to the Delian League
(d) The plague

5. 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) They do not get punished and a general amnesty is declared for all.
(c) Athens declares martial law in Mytilene.
(d) The Athenians carry all the nobles to Athens and put them in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is detailed in Book Two?

2. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?

3. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?

4. What happens immediately after the defeat of the Corcyran fleet?

5. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

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