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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Athenians doing in Italy at about the same time?
(a) Regrouping to attack Peloponnesus
(b) Taking a break from the war
(c) Calling an international conference
(d) Preparing to invade Syracuse

2. Why does the Athenian attack on Messana fail?
(a) A betrayal by Alcibiades
(b) The Spartans arrive before Athens.
(c) An earthquake stops the invasion.
(d) Bad weather sinks many Athenian ships.

3. What happens during the winter of 423 BC on the part of Sparta?
(a) Many of the spartan soldiers freeze to death in the mountains.
(b) Brasidas gets ill and dies.
(c) The Helots mount a successful counterattack on Sparta.
(d) Brasidas mounts an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Potidaea.

4. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) To show the importance of Corinth in the Peloponnesian War.
(b) To establish the credentials of Thucydides as a historian.
(c) To establish background and attempt to examine the causes of the war.
(d) To discuss the daily life of people in Sparta and Athens.

5. What does Athens do in Scione?
(a) Executes the men and enslaves the women and children
(b) Establishes a new military base of operations
(c) Prepares for a long winter
(d) Gains another ally

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between Sparta and Athens in 423 BC?

2. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?

3. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?

4. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?

5. What happens to the Spartan offer of peace?

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