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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Persia, Italy and Sicily, and the Aegean seas and islands
(b) Egypt and Spain
(c) The Galapogas Islands
(d) Germany and Austria

3. The war is between what two powers?
(a) Greece and Italy.
(b) The Corinthian Empire and the Macedonians.
(c) The Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League, an alliance of city-states led by Sparta.
(d) The Persian Empire and Sparta.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?

2. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

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

4. Who is the notable politician who is successful in diverting the attention of Sparta from the Athenians?

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

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