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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major battle occurs in the winter of 415 BC?
(a) Thrace versus Thebes
(b) Sparta versus Italy
(c) Sicily versus Macedonia
(d) Athens versus Syracuse

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

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

4. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?
(a) The Introduction
(b) The Preamble
(c) The Archaelogy
(d) The Apology

5. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?
(a) Corcyra defeats the Athenians.
(b) There is wholesale slaughter of the political opposition.
(c) They have a big party to celebrate.
(d) Athens sends peace envoys to Lesbos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?

2. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?

3. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?

4. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?

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

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