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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta
(b) As part of their alliance with Thebes
(c) Under seige from the spartans
(d) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer

2. Who are the Helots?
(a) Greeks from Helotia
(b) A minor political party in Sparta
(c) Athenian spies in Sparta
(d) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves

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

4. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?
(a) Megara and Euboea stope sending taxes to Athens.
(b) Megara and Euboea revolt against Athens and tentatively join Sparta's Peloponnesian league.
(c) Megara and Euboea join with the Persians against Athens.
(d) Megara and Euboea recall their soldiers from the Athenian army.

5. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.
(b) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.
(c) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(d) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?

4. Why is Sparta somewhat weakened at the start of the war?

5. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

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