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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace
(b) It is confined to Attica
(c) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire
(d) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus

2. How do scholars generally explain the contradictions in Thucydides' text?
(a) Over time. he revises his opinions and understanding but does not always update all relevant textual passages.
(b) Much of the manuscript is lost and Thucydides forgets what he has said earlier.
(c) Thucydides seems to have a great deal of trouble making up his mind.
(d) Correctly analyzed, what appears to be contradictions are actually not.

3. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?
(a) The beheading of Athenian envoys to Sparta
(b) Word that Thrace had invaded Corinth.
(c) The actual advent of hostilities comes about through a Theban surprise attack against Plataea.
(d) An attempted sea attack agains Athens from Sparta

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

5. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?
(a) Thrace
(b) Kurdistan
(c) Kosovo
(d) Macedon

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Athens attempts to invade Boeotia?

2. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?

3. According to Cleon, why does the attack at Sphacteria stall?

4. What happens to the Athenian attack on Megara?

5. How does Thucydides write about important speeches and rhetoric during his time?

(see the answer key)

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