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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Androclese
(b) Socrates
(c) Pericles
(d) Thucydides

2. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.
(b) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.
(c) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(d) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.

3. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?
(a) 410/409 BC
(b) 398/397 BC
(c) 421/420 BC
(d) 432/431 BC

4. What conflict in the region occurs outside of Athens' political control?
(a) Cyprus begins to emerge as a military force.
(b) Corinth and Corcyra form a military alliance.
(c) In 435 BC, Corinth and Corcyra engage in military hostilities; both enjoy some successes but Corcyra appears to gain the advantage.
(d) Persia and Egypt sign treaties of cooperation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?

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

4. In the early days of the war, which power seems to have the upper hand?

5. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?

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