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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the Spartan fleet is at sea, what is happening in Mytilene?
(a) The Mytilenes halt ship production.
(b) The people of Mytilene seize power and surrender the city to Athens.
(c) The Mytilene government has a change of mind.
(d) The Mytilene envoy is recalled from Athens.

2. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.
(b) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(c) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.
(d) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.

3. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Syracuse invades Messana.
(b) Sicily invades Sparta.
(c) Sparta invades Syracuse.
(d) Sicily and Syracuse sign a defense pact.

4. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?
(a) The geography uses names of places that were used only in thucydides' time.
(b) The geography is inexact based on maps that were not correct.
(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.

5. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The plague
(b) The money owned to the Delian League
(c) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra
(d) The Athenian fleet

Short Answer Questions

1. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

2. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?

3. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?

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

5. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?

(see the answer key)

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