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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sparta do in 414 BC?
(a) Gives command of their armies to Alcibiades.
(b) Twice invades Argos.
(c) Makes an alliance with Argos.
(d) Sends new peace envoys to Athens.

2. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
(a) Surround Sparta
(b) Form a successful naval blockade
(c) Create an Athenian-dominated, anti-Spartan alliance.
(d) Establish new strongholds

3. What happens at Amphipolis?
(a) Cleon loses his right arm in the battle at Amphipolis.
(b) There is a great battle that ended in a stand-off.
(c) Cleon is defeated by an audacious attack by Brasidas and both generals are killed in the fighting.
(d) Brasidas is defeated by Cleon's forces.

4. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?
(a) The killing of Helots by Spartan citizens without legal implication.
(b) The legal means to take away the Helots' weaponry.
(c) It is only an exercise in legal maneurving.
(d) The confiscation of Helot children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?

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

3. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?

4. What makes it plausible that Thucydides begins his history from first-hand knowledge?

5. What serious setback happens to Athens in 413 BC?

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