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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta
(b) As part of their alliance with Thebes
(c) Under seige from the spartans
(d) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer

2. For Athens in 425 BC, what funny thing happens on the way to Sicily?
(a) The Athenians come upon new triremes headed for Sparta and sink them.
(b) The fleet comes ashore and fortifies a base at Pylos in Sparta.
(c) The Athenian fleet is blown off course and lands in Crete.
(d) The Spartans mistake Athenian ships for theirs and let them pass.

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

4. According to Cleon, why does the attack at Sphacteria stall?
(a) The curse of the gods
(b) Too much rest time
(c) Poor field management
(d) Not enough troops

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

6. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?
(a) Sparta abandons any naval involvement at all.
(b) Sparta orderes new ships for Egypt.
(c) Sparta sets up a defense against Athenian hit-and-run raids.
(d) Sparta dispatches a fleet to Lesbos.

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

8. Who owns the Helots?
(a) The Spartan state
(b) The Spartan merchants
(c) Individual Spartan citizens
(d) The Persian who farms them out to Sparta.

9. What catastrophic event leads to the revolt of the Helots?
(a) An earthquake in Sparta
(b) A famine in Sparta
(c) A wildfire in Sparta
(d) A tidal wave in Sparta

10. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?
(a) Macedon
(b) Kosovo
(c) Thrace
(d) Kurdistan

11. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?
(a) Gaining a neutrality pact from Persia.
(b) Athens concludes alliances with Odrysian, Thrace, and Macedonia .
(c) Making a peace deal with Corinth.
(d) Athens successfully launches an anti-Spartan publicity attack.

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

13. What is detailed in Book Two?
(a) The formula Thucydides uses for writing the remainer of the history
(b) A complex layout of the geography of the day
(c) The beginning history of the Peloponesian War
(d) The biographies of important individuals ca. 421 BC

14. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?
(a) The defection of thousands of soldiers from Lesbos
(b) The loss of triremes supplied by the island of Lesbos
(c) Vast sums of tribute money no longer available
(d) A potential blockade of Athenian waterways

15. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) False information has Thebes invading Athens.
(b) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(c) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(d) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Athenians respond to the Mytilene rebellion?

2. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

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

4. What happens to the Corcyran fleet?

5. What is the main concern after Athens fortified Pylos?

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