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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) Corcyra is rebuilding its defenses.
(b) Persia is negotiating with Corcyra.
(c) There is an earthquake in Corcyra.
(d) Famine is causing widespread starvation.

2. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?
(a) His bad advisors
(b) His ill health
(c) His lack of troops
(d) His arrogance

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

4. What is detailed in Book Two?
(a) A complex layout of the geography of the day
(b) The formula Thucydides uses for writing the remainer of the history
(c) The beginning history of the Peloponesian War
(d) The biographies of important individuals ca. 421 BC

5. Where is the initial confrontation between Sparta and the Athenians?
(a) Spartan commandos infiltrate Athenian camps.
(b) The Athenians send an advance force into the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(c) Sparta utilizes Persian ships to attack from the Aegean Sea.
(d) A huge Peloponnesian army is assembled at the isthmus leading to Attica which is then invaded

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem soon arises for Athens?

2. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?

3. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

4. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?

5. What happens to the Spartan offer of peace?

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