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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first Athenian to suggest fortifying Pylos?
(a) Demosthenes
(b) Nicias
(c) Brasidas
(d) Cleon

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

3. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?
(a) They ally with Athens who fights with them.
(b) There is intervention and the Spartans have to retreat.
(c) They have impenetrable walls.
(d) Argos has new military weaponry.

4. How does a lunar eclipse enter into the Athenian plans to withdraw?
(a) It gives the Athenians a chance to withdraw in darkness.
(b) It terrifies the Syracusans and causes them to withdraw.
(c) It gives the Syracusans a chance to attack in darkness.
(d) It iss viewed as an omen and the Athenians wait too long to depart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to the once invincible hoplite phalanx?

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

3. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?

4. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?

5. Why are the Peloponnesian triremes better equipped?

(see the answer key)

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