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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?
(a) They disguise themselves as merchant ships.
(b) In those days, envoys are always given safe passage.
(c) They go around and come in on the back side of Lesbos.
(d) They infiltrate the Athenians and get into the city.

4. For Athens in 425 BC, what funny thing happens on the way to Sicily?
(a) The Athenian fleet is blown off course and lands in Crete.
(b) The Athenians come upon new triremes headed for Sparta and sink them.
(c) The Spartans mistake Athenian ships for theirs and let them pass.
(d) The fleet comes ashore and fortifies a base at Pylos in Sparta.

5. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
(a) Form a successful naval blockade
(b) Create an Athenian-dominated, anti-Spartan alliance.
(c) Establish new strongholds
(d) Surround Sparta

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thucydides think of Athenian actions in Scione?

2. What unexplainable surprising event takes place with the patriotic Athenian army?

3. What opinion does Thucydides seem to have about Pericles as a leader?

4. What happens to the Athenian attack on Amphipolis?

5. Why do the Spartans fear the Helots?

(see the answer key)

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