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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the notable politician who is successful in diverting the attention of Sparta from the Athenians?
(a) Phillip
(b) Periclese
(c) Alexander
(d) Themistocles

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

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

4. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?
(a) The Preamble
(b) The Archaelogy
(c) The Introduction
(d) The Apology

5. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) By a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.
(b) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.
(c) Through a series of political treaties binding most Greek cities-states to Athens.
(d) By the military force of Athens at the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?

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

3. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?

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

5. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?

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