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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Athenians doing in Italy at about the same time?
(a) Preparing to invade Syracuse
(b) Calling an international conference
(c) Taking a break from the war
(d) Regrouping to attack Peloponnesus

2. Why does the Athenian attack on Messana fail?
(a) The Spartans arrive before Athens.
(b) Bad weather sinks many Athenian ships.
(c) A betrayal by Alcibiades
(d) An earthquake stops the invasion.

3. What is the relationship of Melos to Athens during the period of the peace of Nicias?
(a) Melos then engages Athens in political rhetoric and refuses to yield to Athenian demands.
(b) Melos seeks to evade entanglement in the Delian League.
(c) Melos sends envoys to both Athens and Sparta.
(d) Melos accedes to all Athanian demands and comes under the Athenian umbrella.

4. Why is Alcibiades not brought to trial immediately after the vandalism for which he is blamed?
(a) Many people do not believe he has anything to do with it.
(b) The government is slow to collect evidence.
(c) The statute of limitations runs out.
(d) The fleet leaves and he goes with it.

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

6. What does Thucydides think of Athenian actions in Scione?
(a) To him. it is an example of the degenerative influence of warfare upon civilization.
(b) He makes no mention of the Athenian actions.
(c) He approves of the severe measures taken by Athens.
(d) To him, it is a necessary result of a difficult conflict.

7. How does the text of Thucydides' history end?
(a) With Thucydides returning from exile back to Athens
(b) With a summary of the entire war
(c) With predictions about future wars
(d) In mid-sentence, seven years prior to the conclusion of the war

8. Who are the main antagonists over the military strategy in 416 BC?
(a) Nician and Alcibiades
(b) Thucydides and Cleon
(c) Brasias and Pericles
(d) Alexander and Phillip

9. What marks the period of the peace of Nicias from 421 to 413 BC?
(a) Economic growth of both Athens and sparta
(b) Military buildups which precluded an skirmishes at all
(c) Several major battles between Athens and Sparta
(d) Minor but constant friction between Athenian and Spartan interests

10. What major battle occurs in the winter of 415 BC?
(a) Sparta versus Italy
(b) Sicily versus Macedonia
(c) Athens versus Syracuse
(d) Thrace versus Thebes

11. What innovation does Gylippus utilize in the second battle at Syracuse?
(a) Battering rams
(b) Explosives
(c) Catapults
(d) Cavalry

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

13. What happens in the second battle at Syracuse?
(a) Gylippus leads his troops to victory.
(b) Nicias finally takes aggressive action.
(c) Cleon comes and takes command of the Athenians.
(d) Alcibiades arrives with reinforcements.

14. What serious setback happens to Athens in 413 BC?
(a) The Athenian fleet is decisively destroyed in Sicily during the winter of 413 BC.
(b) The plague returns, wiping out two thirds of the Athenian military.
(c) There is an earthquake that destroys the walls around Athens.
(d) All of Athens' allies desert to Sparta.

15. What unexplainable surprising event takes place with the patriotic Athenian army?
(a) The patriotic Athenian army makes a pact with Sparta.
(b) Civil war breaks out within the city of Athens led by Nicias.
(c) The patriotic Athenian army faction on Samos recalls Alcibiades and elects him general.
(d) The army disbands leaving Athens open to attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 422 BC, what is the financial condition of Athens?

2. How do the Athenians respond to the many defeats suffered in 414 BC?

3. What happens at Amphipolis?

4. During the winter of 421 BC, what happens with the Boeotians?

5. Who incites the revolt of Chios?

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