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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer
(b) Under seige from the spartans
(c) As part of their alliance with Thebes
(d) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta

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

3. How is the book historically divided by modern scholars?
(a) Book One has historically been subdivided into two named segments although these do not exist as such in the text itself.
(b) Book One is usually looked at as a whole in keeping with Thucydides' method.
(c) Book One is divided in two seasons--winter and summer.
(d) Book One has historically been divided into four major parts with certain aspects emphasized.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?

2. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?

3. How do the Athenians punish the Mytilene nobles after regaining the territory?

4. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?

5. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?

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