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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) They are disbanding their army.
(b) There is a revolt.
(c) The economy is growing from sales of weapons.
(d) They hold new elections.

2. The war is between what two powers?
(a) The Corinthian Empire and the Macedonians.
(b) Greece and Italy.
(c) The Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League, an alliance of city-states led by Sparta.
(d) The Persian Empire and Sparta.

3. Who are the Athenian hoplites?
(a) Heavily-armed military infantry
(b) Religious fanatics
(c) Salves taken from Lesbos
(d) Helots who fled Sparta after the earthquake

4. For Athens in 425 BC, what funny thing happens on the way to Sicily?
(a) The Athenian fleet is blown off course and lands in Crete.
(b) The fleet comes ashore and fortifies a base at Pylos in Sparta.
(c) The Spartans mistake Athenian ships for theirs and let them pass.
(d) The Athenians come upon new triremes headed for Sparta and sink them.

5. How do the Athenians respond to the Mytilene rebellion?
(a) They meet the Sparta army on Lesbos and fight to a stalemate.
(b) They invade Lesbos and are driven back.
(c) They put up a blockade against Lesbos and continue the hit and run attacks on Peloponnesia.
(d) They negotiate a new treaty with Mytilene giving many consessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Thucydides writing his History of the Peloponnesian War?

2. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?

3. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

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

5. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?

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