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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the four major geographic areas listed in Book One?
(a) Sparta, Thebes, the Hellespont and Ephesus.
(b) Attica, the Peloponnesus, Western Hellas and Thrace.
(c) Athens, Persia, Corint and the Aegean.
(d) Egypt, Syria, Greece and Asia Minor.

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

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

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

5. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?
(a) 431 to 404 BC
(b) 190 BC to 25 AD
(c) 525 to 480 BC
(d) 380 to 45 BC

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What conflict in the region occurs outside of Athens' political control?

4. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

5. After the Helot uprising in Sparta, what action does Athens take?

(see the answer key)

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