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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cleon do at Sphacteria?
(a) He sends Demosthenes to finish the job.
(b) He recalls the army because it was hopeless.
(c) He brings in Barbarian mercenaries to finish the job.
(d) He takes command and drives the attack to successful conclusion.

2. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(b) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.
(c) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.
(d) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.

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

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

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

6. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) Through a series of political treaties binding most Greek cities-states to Athens.
(b) By the military force of Athens at the time.
(c) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.
(d) By a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.

7. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?
(a) 380 to 45 BC
(b) 525 to 480 BC
(c) 431 to 404 BC
(d) 190 BC to 25 AD

8. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Corinth
(b) Athens and Thrace
(c) Athens and Macedon
(d) Athens and Sparta

9. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?
(a) His lack of troops
(b) His arrogance
(c) His bad advisors
(d) His ill health

10. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) They are disbanding their army.
(b) The economy is growing from sales of weapons.
(c) They hold new elections.
(d) There is a revolt.

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

12. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?
(a) If the Spartan envoy is not assassinated, the war would end.
(b) Is Sparta surrenders Brasias, the war would end.
(c) If Sparta offers to cede land, the war would end.
(d) If Sparta's offer for peace is accepted, the war would end.

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

14. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?
(a) Hit-and-run naval attacks on the Peloponesian isthmus
(b) Press for a military truce and peace treaty
(c) Stockpile commodities against future Spartan attacks
(d) Build higher walls around Athens

15. What conflict in the region occurs outside of Athens' political control?
(a) Cyprus begins to emerge as a military force.
(b) Persia and Egypt sign treaties of cooperation.
(c) Corinth and Corcyra form a military alliance.
(d) In 435 BC, Corinth and Corcyra engage in military hostilities; both enjoy some successes but Corcyra appears to gain the advantage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?

2. Who are the peltasts?

3. What catastrophic event leads to the revolt of the Helots?

4. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?

5. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?

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