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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?
(a) Athens successfully launches an anti-Spartan publicity attack.
(b) Making a peace deal with Corinth.
(c) Athens concludes alliances with Odrysian, Thrace, and Macedonia .
(d) Gaining a neutrality pact from Persia.

2. What are the four major geographic areas listed in Book One?
(a) Sparta, Thebes, the Hellespont and Ephesus.
(b) Egypt, Syria, Greece and Asia Minor.
(c) Attica, the Peloponnesus, Western Hellas and Thrace.
(d) Athens, Persia, Corint and the Aegean.

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

4. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?
(a) Brasidas
(b) Sparticus
(c) Nicias
(d) Prothagoras

5. Why is Sparta somewhat weakened at the start of the war?
(a) Sparta is in the process of recruiting new troops.
(b) Sparta sufferes from a major famine.
(c) Sparta is also involved in a war with Persia.
(d) Sparta no longer has the services of vast numbers of Helots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is detailed in Book Two?

2. Why do the Spartans fear the Helots?

3. How do scholars from other disciplines consider the value of Thucydides' work?

4. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?

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

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