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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the winter of 421 BC, what happens with the Boeotians?
(a) They begin arming for an offensive in the spring.
(b) They are once again defeated by Athens.
(c) They refuse an alliance with Sparta and make new ones of their own.
(d) They capitulate to Sparta and avoid a massacre.

2. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?
(a) 410/409 BC
(b) 432/431 BC
(c) 421/420 BC
(d) 398/397 BC

3. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?
(a) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(b) Cyclones sweep across the eastern side of Greece.
(c) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.
(d) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.

4. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Persia, Italy and Sicily, and the Aegean seas and islands
(b) The Galapogas Islands
(c) Egypt and Spain
(d) Germany and Austria

5. In the case of a conquered land, what is the general practice of that time regarding private property?
(a) Land is confiscated and given to citizens of the conquering nation.
(b) The land is redistributed among the citizens of the conquered country.
(c) All the land becomes public property administered by the state.
(d) The conquered people are allowed to keep their land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?

2. What occurs between Athens and Sparta during the winter of 422 BC?

3. Who are the peltasts?

4. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?

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

(see the answer key)

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