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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between Sparta and Athens in 423 BC?
(a) A time out to bury their dead
(b) A major battle in Attica
(c) A truce of sorts
(d) The exchange of prisoners of war

2. When Alcibiades is eventually recalled for blasphemy, what does he do?
(a) He flees to Sparta.
(b) He tears up the summons.
(c) He goes to Alexandria.
(d) He hires Socrates to defend him.

3. What appears to be a mistake made by the Athenian forces under Pericles?
(a) Athens ignores the possible danger Corinth might become.
(b) Athens attempts to fortify all of Attica.
(c) Athens attempts an embargo against Sparta.
(d) Athens occupies Aegina and ejects the citizens who are subsequently resettled by Sparta in Thyrea.

4. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?
(a) Argos has new military weaponry.
(b) They have impenetrable walls.
(c) They ally with Athens who fights with them.
(d) There is intervention and the Spartans have to retreat.

5. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Corinth
(b) Athens and Thrace
(c) Athens and Macedon
(d) Athens and Sparta

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Athens doing toward the end of the 526 BC campaign?

2. What happens at Amphipolis?

3. What opinion does Thucydides seem to have about Pericles as a leader?

4. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?

5. What practice does Thucydides not value other than recognizing its effect on politics and the military?

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