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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
(a) Create an Athenian-dominated, anti-Spartan alliance.
(b) Establish new strongholds
(c) Surround Sparta
(d) Form a successful naval blockade

2. Who owns the Helots?
(a) The Spartan state
(b) The Spartan merchants
(c) Individual Spartan citizens
(d) The Persian who farms them out to Sparta.

3. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?
(a) They have a big party to celebrate.
(b) Corcyra defeats the Athenians.
(c) Athens sends peace envoys to Lesbos.
(d) There is wholesale slaughter of the political opposition.

4. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?
(a) They infiltrate the Athenians and get into the city.
(b) In those days, envoys are always given safe passage.
(c) They go around and come in on the back side of Lesbos.
(d) They disguise themselves as merchant ships.

5. What happens to the Corcyran fleet?
(a) It is lost in a freak storm.
(b) It is defeated by the Peloponesian fleet.
(c) It is sent to Mylitene.
(d) It is victorious over the Peloponesian fleet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it necessary for triremes to come ashore often?

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

3. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?

4. What problem soon arises for Athens?

5. Why is Sparta somewhat weakened at the start of the war?

(see the answer key)

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