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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?
(a) Persia
(b) Egypt
(c) Corinth
(d) Thrace

3. 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

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

5. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(b) Athens has the resources to buy off the Spartan forces.
(c) They are able to withstand a long seige.
(d) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?

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

5. How is the Delian League founded?

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