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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do the Athenians punish the Mytilene nobles after regaining the territory?
(a) The Athenians carry all the nobles to Athens and put them in prison.
(b) Athens declares martial law in Mytilene.
(c) They do not get punished and a general amnesty is declared for all.
(d) 1,000 prominent leaders are executed and the walls of Mytilene are razed.

4. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.
(b) They are able to withstand a long seige.
(c) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(d) Athens has the resources to buy off the Spartan forces.

5. What did Sparta demand of her allies?
(a) To surround Attica
(b) To Take Trace and Macedon
(c) To build a massive fleet
(d) To send their troops to Sparta for training

6. What happens to the Athenian attack on Megara?
(a) The Athenians fail to respond quickly enough to the Spartans under Brasidas.
(b) Brasidas retreats and leaves Megara vulnerable.
(c) It is a hasty coup.
(d) The Athenians surround Brasidas and the Spartans.

7. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?
(a) 398/397 BC
(b) 432/431 BC
(c) 421/420 BC
(d) 410/409 BC

8. What happens when Athens attempts to invade Boeotia?
(a) The Athenians run out of supplies and have to retreat.
(b) The oracle at Delphi forbids the invasion.
(c) They suffers a disastrous defeat.
(d) The Boeotians escape to the mountains.

9. 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) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(c) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.
(d) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.

10. What political action does Sparta take in 432 BC?
(a) Sparta begins adding more allies to the Peloponnesian League.
(b) Sparta pulls out of the conflict between Corinth and Athens.
(c) Sparta decides to declare war against Athens.
(d) Sparta holds a referrendum to see what their citizens want to do.

11. What happens between Sparta and Athens in 423 BC?
(a) A major battle in Attica
(b) A time out to bury their dead
(c) A truce of sorts
(d) The exchange of prisoners of war

12. Who are the Athenian hoplites?
(a) Salves taken from Lesbos
(b) Helots who fled Sparta after the earthquake
(c) Religious fanatics
(d) Heavily-armed military infantry

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

14. 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 sent to Mylitene.
(d) It is victorious over the Peloponesian fleet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?

2. What happens immediately after the defeat of the Corcyran fleet?

3. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?

4. How is the book historically divided by modern scholars?

5. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?

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