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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) To establish the credentials of Thucydides as a historian.
(b) To establish background and attempt to examine the causes of the war.
(c) To discuss the daily life of people in Sparta and Athens.
(d) To show the importance of Corinth in the Peloponnesian War.

2. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?
(a) Arcanania, Ambracia, Corcyra, Epidamnus, the Ionian Islands, and Naupactus, among others
(b) Prygia, Lydia, and Caria
(c) Macedon, Ipiris, and Caphellenia
(d) The entire country of Greece on the Ionian Sea

3. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Persia, Italy and Sicily, and the Aegean seas and islands
(b) Egypt and Spain
(c) The Galapogas Islands
(d) Germany and Austria

4. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) The economy is growing from sales of weapons.
(b) They hold new elections.
(c) There is a revolt.
(d) They are disbanding their army.

5. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?
(a) The Preamble
(b) The Apology
(c) The Archaelogy
(d) The Introduction

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs between Athens and Sparta during the winter of 422 BC?

2. What is detailed in Book Two?

3. What military involvement in 416 BC is hotly argued in Athens?

4. What is Thucydides' conclusion about the ravages of the war?

5. Why does Thucydides create his own chronology for his history?

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