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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 Alcibiades not brought to trial immediately after the vandalism for which he is blamed?
(a) The statute of limitations runs out.
(b) The government is slow to collect evidence.
(c) The fleet leaves and he goes with it.
(d) Many people do not believe he has anything to do with it.

2. What happens to the Spartan offer of peace?
(a) The Athenians do not like all the specifications of the peace.
(b) Cleon wants to spy on Spartan strength first.
(c) Under the persuasion of Cleon, the Athenians reject Sparta's offer of peace.
(d) The Athenians think the offer is a trap.

3. When Alcibiades is eventually recalled for blasphemy, what does he do?
(a) He tears up the summons.
(b) He goes to Alexandria.
(c) He flees to Sparta.
(d) He hires Socrates to defend him.

4. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(b) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.
(c) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.
(d) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main concern after Athens fortified Pylos?

2. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?

3. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?

4. Who is the first Athenian to suggest fortifying Pylos?

5. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?

(see the answer key)

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