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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) They are able to withstand a long seige.
(b) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(c) Athens has the resources to buy off the Spartan forces.
(d) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.

2. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?
(a) Athens sends peace envoys to Lesbos.
(b) They have a big party to celebrate.
(c) Corcyra defeats the Athenians.
(d) There is wholesale slaughter of the political opposition.

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

4. What transpires in Syracuse in 414 BC?
(a) Gylippus arrives in Syracuse and saves the city from defeat.
(b) Large financial resources reach Syracuse.
(c) Athens leaves Syracuse when Gylippus arrives.
(d) Envoys pass between Athens and Sicily.

5. What unusual plan does Syracuse put into operation against Athens?
(a) Syracusans put out a rumor that the city has the plague.
(b) Syracuse sends sick civilians into the Athenian ranks to spread disease.
(c) Syracusans build a fleet and attack the Athenian navy.
(d) Syracusans lead land attacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the net result of Gylippus' demand for more and better triremes?

2. How does Thucydides picture certain charismatic generals during the years of the Peloponnesian War?

3. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?

4. What is the historic view of the years from 421 to 413 BC?

5. What is the first step in the unraveling of the Athenian force?

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