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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the book historically divided by modern scholars?
(a) Book One has historically been subdivided into two named segments although these do not exist as such in the text itself.
(b) Book One is divided in two seasons--winter and summer.
(c) Book One has historically been divided into four major parts with certain aspects emphasized.
(d) Book One is usually looked at as a whole in keeping with Thucydides' method.

2. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra
(b) The plague
(c) The money owned to the Delian League
(d) The Athenian fleet

3. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.
(b) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.
(c) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(d) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.

4. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
(b) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.
(c) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.
(d) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.

5. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?
(a) Sparta sets up a defense against Athenian hit-and-run raids.
(b) Sparta orderes new ships for Egypt.
(c) Sparta abandons any naval involvement at all.
(d) Sparta dispatches a fleet to Lesbos.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Helot uprising in Sparta, what action does Athens take?

2. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?

3. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?

4. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?

5. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Thucydides' attitude toward so-called supernatural occurrences?

2. What indication by 428 BC suggested that military tactics were changing?

3. What is a good description of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

4. What was Sparta's advantage in the war?

5. What might have ended the Peloponnesian war after the battle of Pylos?

6. Rather than meet the Peloponnesian land forces head on, what was Pericles' recommendation?

7. What was the significance of the Mytilenean revolt against Athens?

8. What did Thucydides identify as the starting point of the war?

9. How did Pylos actually become an Athenian stronghold in Sparta?

10. What happened to the Spartan fleet dispatched to Mytilene?

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