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

2. What is the major blow to Athens from the Mytilene revolt?
(a) The defection of thousands of soldiers from Lesbos
(b) Vast sums of tribute money no longer available
(c) The loss of triremes supplied by the island of Lesbos
(d) A potential blockade of Athenian waterways

3. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) To establish background and attempt to examine the causes of the war.
(b) To show the importance of Corinth in the Peloponnesian War.
(c) To discuss the daily life of people in Sparta and Athens.
(d) To establish the credentials of Thucydides as a historian.

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

5. 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) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(d) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The war is between what two powers?

2. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?

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

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

5. What action is Athens taking in Sicily and Italy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was happening in 432 BC between Athens and Sparta and what was its true purpose?

4. What event showed that the situation between Athens and Sparta was tenuous at best?

5. What complicates the chronology of Thucydides' history?

6. What was the only threat to Athenian power after the defeat of the invading Persians?

7. What was Sparta's advantage in the war?

8. What was unusual about Spartan use of new methods of war?

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

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

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