2. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
(a) Create an Athenian-dominated, anti-Spartan alliance.
(b) Surround Sparta
(c) Form a successful naval blockade
(d) Establish new strongholds

3. How many battles are fought between Athens and Syracuse?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four

4. What happens among pro-Athens allies at that time?
(a) They form a new league excluding Athens.
(b) The abandon Athens and seek alliance with Persia.
(c) They fight to reinforce their own democracies.
(d) Various pro-Athenian cities consider abandoning democracy for oligarchy.

5. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?
(a) Argos has new military weaponry.
(b) They ally with Athens who fights with them.
(c) They have impenetrable walls.
(d) There is intervention and the Spartans have to retreat.

6. What is commonly called the peace of Nicias by modern scholars?
(a) The treaty of alliance between Sparta and Athens during the winter of 422 to 421 BC
(b) A six-week halt to the hostilities
(c) The end of the Peloponnesian War
(d) A time under Nicias when Sparta is afraid to attack.

7. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?
(a) It has nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta.
(b) It is an important event that is glossed over lightly.
(c) It is a nearly unique authorial digression from the history of the war itself.
(d) It is a strange inclusion of Greek superstition.

8. What indicates Athens' former military superiority as late as 412 BC?
(a) Sparta is still unable to get beyond Attica.
(b) Athens still has a significant military force .
(c) Persia still considers Athens as a threat.
(d) Small nations still look to Sthens for protection.

9. What transpires in Syracuse in 414 BC?
(a) Athens leaves Syracuse when Gylippus arrives.
(b) Large financial resources reach Syracuse.
(c) Gylippus arrives in Syracuse and saves the city from defeat.
(d) Envoys pass between Athens and Sicily.

10. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?
(a) Athens refuses to receive Spartan envoys.
(b) The continue raids in Lycos.
(c) Athens has allied with Argos against the Spartans.
(d) Alcibiades informs Sparta that Athens is out of money.

11. Where is Thucydides writing his History of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) In exile
(b) In Sparta
(c) Underground Athens
(d) In the Library of Alexandria

12. What happens to the Athenian attack on Amphipolis?
(a) It fails.
(b) Sparta is there waiting for the Athenians.
(c) The Athenians easily win.
(d) The Athenians are surprised by ambush.

13. What is the final year in Thucydides' history?
(a) 411 BC
(b) 399 BC
(c) 404 BC
(d) 412 BC

14. What desecration of religious idols is charged to Alcibiades?
(a) The stoning of the Oracle at Delphi
(b) Setting fire to the temple of Apollo
(c) The vandalism of the Hermae of Athens
(d) Knocking over the statues of Athena

15. What is the resulting military action after the revolt of Chios?
(a) The arrival of a Persian fleet in the Aegean Sea
(b) A larger revolt involving more of the Delian League allies
(c) A combined Athenian and Argive force achieves a victory at Miletus but then retires as a larger Peloponnesian relief force approaches.
(d) A surprise attack on Athens by Sparta and Syracuse