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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.
(b) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.
(c) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.
(d) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
2. What happens during the winter of 423 BC on the part of Sparta?
(a) The Helots mount a successful counterattack on Sparta.
(b) Many of the spartan soldiers freeze to death in the mountains.
(c) Brasidas gets ill and dies.
(d) Brasidas mounts an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Potidaea.
3. What happens to the Athenian attack on Megara?
(a) The Athenians fail to respond quickly enough to the Spartans under Brasidas.
(b) Brasidas retreats and leaves Megara vulnerable.
(c) It is a hasty coup.
(d) The Athenians surround Brasidas and the Spartans.
4. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) False information has Thebes invading Athens.
(b) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(c) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.
(d) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
5. What military involvement in 416 BC is hotly argued in Athens?
(a) Sending hoplites to guard the borders of Attica
(b) Conscripting Helots to fight the Spartans
(c) Mounting an invasion of Italy
(d) Sending a fleet again to Sicily
Short Answer Questions
1. How successful is Sparta's land and sea attack on Pylos?
2. How do scholars generally explain the contradictions in Thucydides' text?
3. What does Sparta do in 414 BC?
4. According to Cleon, why does the attack at Sphacteria stall?
5. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?
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