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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?
(a) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.
(b) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.
(c) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(d) The Peloponnesian army is prevented from ravaging Attica by a series of earthquakes.

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

3. What natural phenomenon takes place in Italy in 426 BC?
(a) A meteor creates a vast crater in Italy.
(b) Mt. Aetna eruptes.
(c) Heavy rains and floods come that year.
(d) A tsunami hits southern Italy.

4. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(b) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.
(c) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.
(d) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.

5. What is the main concern after Athens fortified Pylos?
(a) The leading general fears an Athenian advance deep into the Peloponnesus.
(b) Sparta fears that their citizens might defect.
(c) Leading generals fear Athenians might carry the plague.
(d) Sparta fears the Helots might join with the Athenians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?

2. How does Corinth enter the war?

3. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?

4. What conflict in the region occurs outside of Athens' political control?

5. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the Spartan fleet dispatched to Mytilene?

2. What effort did Sparta make to get the Athenians out of Pylos?

3. In 426 BC, what prevented the annual invasion of Attica by the Peloponnesian forces?

4. What was Thucydides' reaction to the aftermath of the Corcyran revolt?

5. What was the significance of the Mytilenean revolt against Athens?

6. What effect did new technology have on the war?

7. How did Pylos actually become an Athenian stronghold in Sparta?

8. After the battle for Pylos, what happened to the Spartan survivors?

9. How did Athens rise to its highest political power?

10. From the point of view of allies, how was Athens positioned in the war?

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