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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?
(a) Defeat of the invading Persian army
(b) Defeat of the Spartans
(c) The influence of Socratic philosophy
(d) Incorporation of the surrounding city-states

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Androclese
(b) Thucydides
(c) Pericles
(d) Socrates

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

9. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?
(a) The would-be generals
(b) The shipbuilders
(c) The upper classes
(d) The commoners of Lesbos

10. Why is it necessary for triremes to come ashore often?
(a) The triremes have no bathroom facilities.
(b) The crews need space to cook, sleep and relax.
(c) The boats have to be repaired often.
(d) The triremes need some of the weight reduced.

11. What are the four major geographic areas listed in Book One?
(a) Attica, the Peloponnesus, Western Hellas and Thrace.
(b) Sparta, Thebes, the Hellespont and Ephesus.
(c) Egypt, Syria, Greece and Asia Minor.
(d) Athens, Persia, Corint and the Aegean.

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

13. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.
(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 a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.

14. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?
(a) Cleon's order that nothing be written about it.
(b) Thucydides' particular dislike for Cleon
(c) Everything is military top secret
(d) Demosthenes covers up the truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For Athens in 425 BC, what funny thing happens on the way to Sicily?

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

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

4. Where are Spartan ground forces marooned after the battle for Pylos?

5. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?

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