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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Sparta somewhat weakened at the start of the war?
(a) Sparta sufferes from a major famine.
(b) Sparta is also involved in a war with Persia.
(c) Sparta is in the process of recruiting new troops.
(d) Sparta no longer has the services of vast numbers of Helots.

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

3. 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.

4. What desecration of religious idols is charged to Alcibiades?
(a) Setting fire to the temple of Apollo
(b) The stoning of the Oracle at Delphi
(c) Knocking over the statues of Athena
(d) The vandalism of the Hermae of Athens

5. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Germany and Austria
(b) Egypt and Spain
(c) Persia, Italy and Sicily, and the Aegean seas and islands
(d) The Galapogas Islands

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleon do at Sphacteria?

2. How do scholars generally explain the contradictions in Thucydides' text?

3. In 424 BC, how does Sparta change its military methods?

4. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?

5. Who arrives in Sicily and changes the course of the conflict with Athens?

(see the answer key)

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