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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?
(a) Athens has allied with Argos against the Spartans.
(b) Alcibiades informs Sparta that Athens is out of money.
(c) Athens refuses to receive Spartan envoys.
(d) The continue raids in Lycos.

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

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

4. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) By the military force of Athens at the time.
(b) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.
(c) Through a series of political treaties binding most Greek cities-states to Athens.
(d) By a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.

5. Where are Spartan ground forces marooned after the battle for Pylos?
(a) On Lesbos
(b) In Crete
(c) On the island of Sphacteria
(d) In Sicily

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the triremes used in naval combat?

2. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?

3. Why is Alcibiades not brought to trial immediately after the vandalism for which he is blamed?

4. What is commonly called the peace of Nicias by modern scholars?

5. Who are the Helots?

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