1. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(b) False information has Thebes invading Athens.
(c) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(d) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.

2. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?
(a) The beheading of Athenian envoys to Sparta
(b) An attempted sea attack agains Athens from Sparta
(c) Word that Thrace had invaded Corinth.
(d) The actual advent of hostilities comes about through a Theban surprise attack against Plataea.

3. What conflict in the region occurs outside of Athens' political control?
(a) Corinth and Corcyra form a military alliance.
(b) Cyprus begins to emerge as a military force.
(c) Persia and Egypt sign treaties of cooperation.
(d) In 435 BC, Corinth and Corcyra engage in military hostilities; both enjoy some successes but Corcyra appears to gain the advantage.

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

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