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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Athenians respond to the Mytilene rebellion?
(a) They put up a blockade against Lesbos and continue the hit and run attacks on Peloponnesia.
(b) They negotiate a new treaty with Mytilene giving many consessions.
(c) They meet the Sparta army on Lesbos and fight to a stalemate.
(d) They invade Lesbos and are driven back.

2. After Athens intervenes in Corcyra, what does Thucydides observe?
(a) Violence of all kinds sweeps through Corcyra and mass murder is enacted for political and personal reasons.
(b) Corcyrans flee to the safety of Athens.
(c) There is nothing left of Corcyra.
(d) It is a time of peace in Corcyra.

3. What is Athens doing toward the end of the 526 BC campaign?
(a) Athens is sending out envoys to even more surrounding states.
(b) Athens is adding to its already sizable fleet.
(c) Athens is reenforcing its position in Attica.
(d) Much of the latter campaign season is consumed by Athenian attacks upon Aetolia.

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

5. What happens immediately after the defeat of the Corcyran fleet?
(a) Athens leaves Corcyra to defend itself.
(b) Sparta withdraws to rebuild its fleet.
(c) The Athenian fleet defeates the Peloponesian fleet.
(d) Winter sets in and the hostilities cease.

6. Who are the Helots?
(a) A minor political party in Sparta
(b) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves
(c) Greeks from Helotia
(d) Athenian spies in Sparta

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

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. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?
(a) Egypt
(b) Corinth
(c) Thrace
(d) Persia

10. 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) In this segment, Thucydides ennumerates the five main generals who led the wars.
(c) This segment deals with the five geographical areas of the major powers involved.
(d) The segment is used to give the five majoy reasons that tensions were running high.

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

12. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The Athenian fleet
(b) The money owned to the Delian League
(c) The plague
(d) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra

13. At the time Athens is gaining control in Lesbos, what is happening in Plataea?
(a) Plataea finally capitulates and the Spartans execute all of the surviving forces.
(b) Plataea is defeated by an Athenian attack.
(c) Plataea declares itself neutral.
(d) Plataea holds off the Spartans until Athenian forces arrive.

14. Where is the initial confrontation between Sparta and the Athenians?
(a) Spartan commandos infiltrate Athenian camps.
(b) Sparta utilizes Persian ships to attack from the Aegean Sea.
(c) The Athenians send an advance force into the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(d) A huge Peloponnesian army is assembled at the isthmus leading to Attica which is then invaded

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?

2. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?

3. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?

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

5. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?

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