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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action is Athens taking in Sicily and Italy?
(a) Athens is building new triremes to attack from the West.
(b) Athens is establishing diplomatic relations in Sicily and italy.
(c) Athens is raising additional armies.
(d) Athenian troops capture a few small cities in Sicily and Locris in Italy.

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

3. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?
(a) In this segment, Thucydides examines a period of roughly fifty years leading up to the formal outbreak of hostilities.
(b) The segment is used to give the five majoy reasons that tensions were running high.
(c) This segment deals with the five geographical areas of the major powers involved.
(d) In this segment, Thucydides ennumerates the five main generals who led the wars.

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

5. Who is the notable politician who is successful in diverting the attention of Sparta from the Athenians?
(a) Phillip
(b) Themistocles
(c) Alexander
(d) Periclese

6. In the early days of the war, which power seems to have the upper hand?
(a) Thrace
(b) Sparta
(c) Athens
(d) Corinth

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

8. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?
(a) Athens sends peace envoys to Lesbos.
(b) They have a big party to celebrate.
(c) There is wholesale slaughter of the political opposition.
(d) Corcyra defeats the Athenians.

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

10. How is the book historically divided by modern scholars?
(a) Book One is usually looked at as a whole in keeping with Thucydides' method.
(b) Book One is divided in two seasons--winter and summer.
(c) Book One has historically been divided into four major parts with certain aspects emphasized.
(d) Book One has historically been subdivided into two named segments although these do not exist as such in the text itself.

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

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

13. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?
(a) The legal means to take away the Helots' weaponry.
(b) It is only an exercise in legal maneurving.
(c) The confiscation of Helot children.
(d) The killing of Helots by Spartan citizens without legal implication.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?

2. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?

3. Where is the Attica-Euboea-Boeotia area of Greece?

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

5. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?

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