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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sparta demand of her allies?
(a) To send their troops to Sparta for training
(b) To Take Trace and Macedon
(c) To build a massive fleet
(d) To surround Attica

2. Where is the initial confrontation between Sparta and the Athenians?
(a) The Athenians send an advance force into the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(b) Spartan commandos infiltrate Athenian camps.
(c) A huge Peloponnesian army is assembled at the isthmus leading to Attica which is then invaded
(d) Sparta utilizes Persian ships to attack from the Aegean Sea.

3. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?
(a) His lack of troops
(b) His arrogance
(c) His bad advisors
(d) His ill health

4. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?
(a) An attempted sea attack agains Athens from Sparta
(b) Word that Thrace had invaded Corinth.
(c) The actual advent of hostilities comes about through a Theban surprise attack against Plataea.
(d) The beheading of Athenian envoys to Sparta

5. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?
(a) The geography uses names of places that were used only in thucydides' time.
(b) The geographic scope of Book One, particularly throughout the Pentecontaetia, is vast and shifts rapidly.
(c) The geography is inexact based on maps that were not correct.
(d) The geography is only hinted at and not spelled out clearly.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?

2. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?

3. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?

4. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?

5. Where is the Attica-Euboea-Boeotia area of Greece?

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