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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship of Melos to Athens during the period of the peace of Nicias?
(a) Melos sends envoys to both Athens and Sparta.
(b) Melos then engages Athens in political rhetoric and refuses to yield to Athenian demands.
(c) Melos seeks to evade entanglement in the Delian League.
(d) Melos accedes to all Athanian demands and comes under the Athenian umbrella.

2. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Sicily invades Sparta.
(b) Sparta invades Syracuse.
(c) Syracuse invades Messana.
(d) Sicily and Syracuse sign a defense pact.

3. What area remains as the seat of power after the defeat at Syracuse?
(a) Athens and the Delian League.
(b) The Attica-Euboea-Boeotia-Peloponnesus Theater
(c) Persia and Corinth.
(d) Samos, Chios, and Sardis.

4. How are the triremes used in naval combat?
(a) They aim for the enemy ship and ram it.
(b) The move in quickly and are able to board the enemy ship.
(c) They are outfitted with dart throwing devices.
(d) They come alongside another trireme and break its oars.

5. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?
(a) Both sides
(b) Corinth
(c) Corcyra
(d) Neither side

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Athenians doing in Italy at about the same time?

2. What indicates Athens' former military superiority as late as 412 BC?

3. How do scholars from other disciplines consider the value of Thucydides' work?

4. Where are most of the skirmishes fought in 411 BC?

5. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?

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