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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Athens doing toward the end of the 526 BC campaign?
(a) Athens is reenforcing its position in Attica.
(b) Much of the latter campaign season is consumed by Athenian attacks upon Aetolia.
(c) Athens is sending out envoys to even more surrounding states.
(d) Athens is adding to its already sizable fleet.

2. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?
(a) An attempted sea attack agains Athens from Sparta
(b) Word that Thrace had invaded Corinth.
(c) The beheading of Athenian envoys to Sparta
(d) The actual advent of hostilities comes about through a Theban surprise attack against Plataea.

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

4. Who is the notable politician who is successful in diverting the attention of Sparta from the Athenians?
(a) Alexander
(b) Phillip
(c) Themistocles
(d) Periclese

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?

3. While the Spartan fleet is at sea, what is happening in Mytilene?

4. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?

5. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?

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