1. 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.

2. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?
(a) Prygia, Lydia, and Caria
(b) Macedon, Ipiris, and Caphellenia
(c) Arcanania, Ambracia, Corcyra, Epidamnus, the Ionian Islands, and Naupactus, among others
(d) The entire country of Greece on the Ionian Sea

3. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.
(b) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.
(c) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
(d) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.

4. What appears to be a mistake made by the Athenian forces under Pericles?
(a) Athens attempts an embargo against Sparta.
(b) Athens occupies Aegina and ejects the citizens who are subsequently resettled by Sparta in Thyrea.
(c) Athens ignores the possible danger Corinth might become.
(d) Athens attempts to fortify all of Attica.

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