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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military plan is put into effect in response to Nicias' request?
(a) Demosthenes prepares to lead a fleet to Sicily while another Athenian fleet raids along the Peloponnesus.
(b) Demosthenes commands a large group of hoplites who are taken to Syracuse by ship.
(c) Demosthenes declines to get involved in the war.
(d) Demosthenes becomes the first casualty of the naval war.

2. How do scholars from other disciplines consider the value of Thucydides' work?
(a) Its' politics are not consistent with other writers' interpretations.
(b) The strange chronology makes it useless for other fields of study.
(c) It provides enough corollary materials that is has been the subject of scrutiny across a diverse field of studies.
(d) Social analysts cannot get a picture of the development of democratic institutions.

3. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?
(a) Prygia, Lydia, and Caria
(b) Macedon, Ipiris, and Caphellenia
(c) Arcanania, Ambracia, Corcyra, Epidamnus, the Ionian Islands, and Naupactus, among others
(d) The entire country of Greece on the Ionian Sea

4. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
(b) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.
(c) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.
(d) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.

5. Why is Book 5 of the History of the Peloponnesian War such a short book?
(a) There is only one battle during that time.
(b) There are fewer conflicts spread out over a number of years.
(c) Thucydides has to leave Athens in a hurry.
(d) Much of the history during that time is lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What marks the period of the peace of Nicias from 421 to 413 BC?

2. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?

3. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?

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

5. How do the Athenians respond to the many defeats suffered in 414 BC?

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