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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. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) There is an earthquake in Corcyra.
(b) Persia is negotiating with Corcyra.
(c) Corcyra is rebuilding its defenses.
(d) Famine is causing widespread starvation.

2. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?
(a) Athens supports the Helots against the leaders of Sparta.
(b) Sparta begins to resent Athens because they do not send aid.
(c) Athens sends troops to aid the Spartans but they refuse their help.
(d) After the revolt, Athens incorporates large portians of Spartan held territory.

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

4. Who owns the Helots?
(a) The Spartan state
(b) The Persian who farms them out to Sparta.
(c) The Spartan merchants
(d) Individual Spartan citizens

5. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?
(a) Cyclones sweep across the eastern side of Greece.
(b) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.
(c) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.
(d) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?

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

3. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?

4. How do the Athenians punish the Mytilene nobles after regaining the territory?

5. Who is the first Athenian to suggest fortifying Pylos?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the political situation between Athens and Sparta by 451 BC?

2. What notable action did the Athenian fleet take in 425 BC on its way to Sicily?

3. How did Athens respond to the attack on Attica?

4. What complicates the chronology of Thucydides' history?

5. What indication by 428 BC suggested that military tactics were changing?

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

7. How did Peloponnesian attacks on Attica in the summer of 428 BC affect Athens?

8. What punishment did Athens mete out to Mytilene after the revolt?

9. Describe the conditions before the lead up to the Peloponnesian War.

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

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