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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire
(b) It is confined to Attica
(c) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus
(d) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace

2. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?
(a) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(b) The Peloponnesian army is prevented from ravaging Attica by a series of earthquakes.
(c) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.
(d) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.

3. What happens during the winter of 423 BC on the part of Sparta?
(a) Brasidas mounts an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Potidaea.
(b) The Helots mount a successful counterattack on Sparta.
(c) Many of the spartan soldiers freeze to death in the mountains.
(d) Brasidas gets ill and dies.

4. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Corinth
(b) Athens and Sparta
(c) Athens and Thrace
(d) Athens and Macedon

5. What catastrophic event leads to the revolt of the Helots?
(a) A wildfire in Sparta
(b) A tidal wave in Sparta
(c) A famine in Sparta
(d) An earthquake in Sparta

Short Answer Questions

1. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?

2. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?

3. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

4. What problem soon arises for Athens?

5. Who is instrumental in getting Sparta to join Syracuse against Athens?

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