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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?
(a) They infiltrate the Athenians and get into the city.
(b) They go around and come in on the back side of Lesbos.
(c) They disguise themselves as merchant ships.
(d) In those days, envoys are always given safe passage.

2. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?
(a) Athens sends troops to aid the Spartans but they refuse their help.
(b) After the revolt, Athens incorporates large portians of Spartan held territory.
(c) Sparta begins to resent Athens because they do not send aid.
(d) Athens supports the Helots against the leaders of Sparta.

3. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Pericles
(b) Thucydides
(c) Socrates
(d) Androclese

4. What political action does Sparta take in 432 BC?
(a) Sparta decides to declare war against Athens.
(b) Sparta holds a referrendum to see what their citizens want to do.
(c) Sparta begins adding more allies to the Peloponnesian League.
(d) Sparta pulls out of the conflict between Corinth and Athens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?

2. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?

3. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?

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

5. What Athenian general becomes successful in 425 BC?

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