1. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?
(a) It is a strange inclusion of Greek superstition.
(b) It has nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta.
(c) It is a nearly unique authorial digression from the history of the war itself.
(d) It is an important event that is glossed over lightly.

2. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?
(a) Athens' defenses are weakened considerably.
(b) Large areas of crop land are destroyed.
(c) Athens is able to dirve them back this time.
(d) Pericles finally agrees to fight the enemy.

3. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?
(a) The geography is only hinted at and not spelled out clearly.
(b) The geography is inexact based on maps that were not correct.
(c) The geographic scope of Book One, particularly throughout the Pentecontaetia, is vast and shifts rapidly.
(d) The geography uses names of places that were used only in thucydides' time.

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

5. What further mischief does a former Athenian general create in 412 BC?
(a) Demosthenes attempts to establish an oligarchy with himself at its head.
(b) Nicias leads a revolt of the Athenian army.
(c) Cleon turns traitor and gives state secrets to Sparta.
(d) Alcibiades attempts to subvert an Athenian army in the field at Samos.