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

2. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(b) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(c) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.
(d) False information has Thebes invading Athens.

3. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?
(a) Megara and Euboea join with the Persians against Athens.
(b) Megara and Euboea stope sending taxes to Athens.
(c) Megara and Euboea recall their soldiers from the Athenian army.
(d) Megara and Euboea revolt against Athens and tentatively join Sparta's Peloponnesian league.

4. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?
(a) The shipbuilders
(b) The commoners of Lesbos
(c) The upper classes
(d) The would-be generals

5. What problem soon arises for Athens?
(a) They begin having to travel farther for supplies.
(b) The treasury is rapidly being depleted.
(c) Their triremes begin needing major repairs.
(d) They have a large number of military desertions.