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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the peltasts?
(a) Suicide attackers
(b) Unarmored men throwing darted missiles
(c) Barbarian mercenaries
(d) Stone age warriors

2. What opinion does Thucydides seem to have about Pericles as a leader?
(a) He blames him for the later defeats of the Athenians.
(b) He thinks he is too passive.
(c) He faults him for not taking on Sparta sooner.
(d) He rates him as highly effectual.

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

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

5. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?
(a) Kurdistan
(b) Kosovo
(c) Macedon
(d) Thrace

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?

2. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?

3. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?

4. What is detailed in Book Two?

5. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?

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