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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sparta demand of her allies?
(a) To build a massive fleet
(b) To surround Attica
(c) To send their troops to Sparta for training
(d) To Take Trace and Macedon

2. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?
(a) Athens has allied with Argos against the Spartans.
(b) The continue raids in Lycos.
(c) Athens refuses to receive Spartan envoys.
(d) Alcibiades informs Sparta that Athens is out of money.

3. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Macedon
(b) Athens and Thrace
(c) Athens and Corinth
(d) Athens and Sparta

4. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Pericles
(b) Socrates
(c) Androclese
(d) Thucydides

5. According to Cleon, why does the attack at Sphacteria stall?
(a) The curse of the gods
(b) Not enough troops
(c) Too much rest time
(d) Poor field management

Short Answer Questions

1. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?

2. What is detailed in Book Two?

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

4. How does Corinth enter the war?

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

(see the answer key)

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