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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What catastrophic event leads to the revolt of the Helots?
(a) A wildfire in Sparta
(b) A famine in Sparta
(c) An earthquake in Sparta
(d) A tidal wave in Sparta

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Corinth enter the war?

2. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?

3. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

4. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?

5. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?

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