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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?
(a) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(b) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.
(c) The Peloponnesian army is prevented from ravaging Attica by a series of earthquakes.
(d) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.

2. Who owns the Helots?
(a) Individual Spartan citizens
(b) The Persian who farms them out to Sparta.
(c) The Spartan state
(d) The Spartan merchants

3. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?
(a) It is organized along thematic lines rather than being chronological.
(b) It has many obscure references that cannot be corroberated.
(c) There is some evidence that someone other than Thucydides wrote this section.
(d) Book One assumes that the reader will know information not available to modern readers.

4. What does Thucydides say about the new Peloponnesian triremes?
(a) They use less manpower to operate.
(b) They are lighter and can move faster in the water.
(c) They are the largest ships ever built up to that time.
(d) These triremes possess a reinforced prow with strengthened rams.

5. What action is Athens taking in Sicily and Italy?
(a) Athens is raising additional armies.
(b) Athens is building new triremes to attack from the West.
(c) Athens is establishing diplomatic relations in Sicily and italy.
(d) Athenian troops capture a few small cities in Sicily and Locris in Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?

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

3. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?

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

5. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

(see the answer key)

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