2. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) To establish the credentials of Thucydides as a historian.
(b) To discuss the daily life of people in Sparta and Athens.
(c) To show the importance of Corinth in the Peloponnesian War.
(d) To establish background and attempt to examine the causes of the war.

3. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?
(a) Prygia, Lydia, and Caria
(b) Arcanania, Ambracia, Corcyra, Epidamnus, the Ionian Islands, and Naupactus, among others
(c) Macedon, Ipiris, and Caphellenia
(d) The entire country of Greece on the Ionian Sea

4. Where are Spartan ground forces marooned after the battle for Pylos?
(a) In Sicily
(b) On Lesbos
(c) On the island of Sphacteria
(d) In Crete

5. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) There is an earthquake in Corcyra.
(b) Corcyra is rebuilding its defenses.
(c) Persia is negotiating with Corcyra.
(d) Famine is causing widespread starvation.

6. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.
(b) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.
(c) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(d) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.

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

8. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?
(a) The Peloponnesian army is prevented from ravaging Attica by a series of earthquakes.
(b) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.
(c) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(d) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.

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

10. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?
(a) Incorporation of the surrounding city-states
(b) Defeat of the invading Persian army
(c) Defeat of the Spartans
(d) The influence of Socratic philosophy

11. What is a major upset to Athens during 447 through 446 BC?
(a) Persia finally defeats the Athenian army.
(b) Boeotia successfully revolts against Athens and regains her independence.
(c) Athenian military goes on strike for higher wages.
(d) Political leadership in Athens splits into several factions.

12. What Athenian general becomes successful in 425 BC?
(a) Sophocles defeates the Spartans in Attica.
(b) Androclese uses lions to put fear in the Spartan soldiers.
(c) Alcibiades leads many successful raids into the Peloponesian isthmus.
(d) Demosthenes leads Athenian troops and allies to victory over a combined Peloponnesian and Ambraciot army

13. Where is is the Peloponnesus itself?
(a) The Southern tip of Greece
(b) On the Northwestern coast of Greece
(c) In the Cyclades
(d) Just North of Attica

14. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?
(a) Megara and Euboea stope sending taxes to Athens.
(b) Megara and Euboea join with the Persians against Athens.
(c) Megara and Euboea revolt against Athens and tentatively join Sparta's Peloponnesian league.
(d) Megara and Euboea recall their soldiers from the Athenian army.

15. What happens to the Corcyran fleet?
(a) It is lost in a freak storm.
(b) It is sent to Mylitene.
(c) It is defeated by the Peloponesian fleet.
(d) It is victorious over the Peloponesian fleet.