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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?
(a) Demosthenes covers up the truth.
(b) Thucydides' particular dislike for Cleon
(c) Everything is military top secret
(d) Cleon's order that nothing be written about it.

2. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?
(a) The influence of Socratic philosophy
(b) Defeat of the Spartans
(c) Defeat of the invading Persian army
(d) Incorporation of the surrounding city-states

3. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?
(a) They have impenetrable walls.
(b) Argos has new military weaponry.
(c) They ally with Athens who fights with them.
(d) There is intervention and the Spartans have to retreat.

4. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?
(a) Sparta dispatches a fleet to Lesbos.
(b) Sparta abandons any naval involvement at all.
(c) Sparta sets up a defense against Athenian hit-and-run raids.
(d) Sparta orderes new ships for Egypt.

5. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?
(a) The defection of thousands of soldiers from Lesbos
(b) Vast sums of tribute money no longer available
(c) A potential blockade of Athenian waterways
(d) The loss of triremes supplied by the island of Lesbos

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?

2. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?

3. Who are the Athenian hoplites?

4. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?

5. How does Thucydides write about important speeches and rhetoric during his time?

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