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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are many Syracusans advocating prior to the arrival of Gylippus?
(a) Abandoning the region
(b) Calling for spartan intervention
(c) Joining the Delian League
(d) A settlement with Athens

2. What happens among pro-Athens allies at that time?
(a) They fight to reinforce their own democracies.
(b) They form a new league excluding Athens.
(c) The abandon Athens and seek alliance with Persia.
(d) Various pro-Athenian cities consider abandoning democracy for oligarchy.

3. Why does Thucydides suddenly include more information on Peloponnesian events?
(a) Thucydides' exile somehow gains him greater access to Peloponnesian sources.
(b) He goes to Pylos and stays there for a long time.
(c) He is able to travel to Sparta under the protection of an envoy.
(d) He finds a Peloponnesian collabarator.

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

5. What innovation does Gylippus utilize in the second battle at Syracuse?
(a) Battering rams
(b) Catapults
(c) Cavalry
(d) Explosives

Short Answer Questions

1. What removes Syracuse, Sicily, and Italy from the text of Thucydides' history?

2. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?

3. Who owns the Helots?

4. What problem soon arises for Athens?

5. What happens in 411 BC to the Athenian democracy after the defeat at Syracuse?

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