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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Spartan offer of peace?
(a) The Athenians think the offer is a trap.
(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 do not like all the specifications of the peace.

2. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?
(a) It has nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta.
(b) It is an important event that is glossed over lightly.
(c) It is a nearly unique authorial digression from the history of the war itself.
(d) It is a strange inclusion of Greek superstition.

3. Who arrives in Sicily and changes the course of the conflict with Athens?
(a) Myron
(b) Gylippus
(c) Agamemnon
(d) Brasias

4. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.
(b) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(c) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(d) False information has Thebes invading Athens.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?

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

3. Who are the main antagonists over the military strategy in 416 BC?

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

5. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?

(see the answer key)

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