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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?
(a) If the Spartan envoy is not assassinated, the war would end.
(b) If Sparta's offer for peace is accepted, the war would end.
(c) If Sparta offers to cede land, the war would end.
(d) Is Sparta surrenders Brasias, the war would end.

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

3. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) As part of their alliance with Thebes
(b) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer
(c) Under seige from the spartans
(d) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta

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

5. In 424 BC, how does Sparta change its military methods?
(a) They formalize defensive units of archers and cavalry.
(b) They add extra soldiers to their infantry.
(c) They become more proficient sailors.
(d) They invent the catapult.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Alcibiades not brought to trial immediately after the vandalism for which he is blamed?

3. What is detailed in Book Two?

4. In the early days of the war, which power seems to have the upper hand?

5. What are the feelings of many Athenians leading up to the problems in Sicily?

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