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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?
(a) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.
(b) Cyclones sweep across the eastern side of Greece.
(c) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.
(d) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?

2. What is a major upset to Athens during 447 through 446 BC?

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

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

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

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