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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Thucydides
(b) Androclese
(c) Socrates
(d) Pericles

2. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?
(a) This segment deals with the five geographical areas of the major powers involved.
(b) The segment is used to give the five majoy reasons that tensions were running high.
(c) In this segment, Thucydides examines a period of roughly fifty years leading up to the formal outbreak of hostilities.
(d) In this segment, Thucydides ennumerates the five main generals who led the wars.

3. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?
(a) They infiltrate the Athenians and get into the city.
(b) They disguise themselves as merchant ships.
(c) In those days, envoys are always given safe passage.
(d) They go around and come in on the back side of Lesbos.

4. Who are the Helots?
(a) Athenian spies in Sparta
(b) Greeks from Helotia
(c) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves
(d) A minor political party in Sparta

5. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.
(b) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.
(c) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(d) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?

2. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?

3. How is the Delian League founded?

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

5. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

(see the answer key)

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