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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How successful is Sparta's land and sea attack on Pylos?
(a) Demosthenes is able to hold them off.
(b) It comes to a complete stalemate.
(c) They destroy the Athenian stronghold.
(d) It is better on land than at sea.

2. What happens to the Athenian attack on Megara?
(a) The Athenians surround Brasidas and the Spartans.
(b) Brasidas retreats and leaves Megara vulnerable.
(c) The Athenians fail to respond quickly enough to the Spartans under Brasidas.
(d) It is a hasty coup.

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

4. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?
(a) Corcyra
(b) Neither side
(c) Corinth
(d) Both sides

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the case of a conquered land, what is the general practice of that time regarding private property?

2. Where is the Attica-Euboea-Boeotia area of Greece?

3. Who are the peltasts?

4. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?

5. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?

(see the answer key)

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