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

2. In the case of a conquered land, what is the general practice of that time regarding private property?
(a) The conquered people are allowed to keep their land.
(b) The land is redistributed among the citizens of the conquered country.
(c) Land is confiscated and given to citizens of the conquering nation.
(d) All the land becomes public property administered by the state.

3. What Athenian general becomes successful in 425 BC?
(a) Androclese uses lions to put fear in the Spartan soldiers.
(b) Alcibiades leads many successful raids into the Peloponesian isthmus.
(c) Demosthenes leads Athenian troops and allies to victory over a combined Peloponnesian and Ambraciot army
(d) Sophocles defeates the Spartans in Attica.

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

5. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?
(a) The geography is inexact based on maps that were not correct.
(b) The geography uses names of places that were used only in thucydides' time.
(c) The geography is only hinted at and not spelled out clearly.
(d) The geographic scope of Book One, particularly throughout the Pentecontaetia, is vast and shifts rapidly.