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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. 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.

2. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The money owned to the Delian League
(b) The plague
(c) The Athenian fleet
(d) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra

3. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?
(a) Prothagoras
(b) Sparticus
(c) Nicias
(d) Brasidas

4. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Macedon
(b) Athens and Sparta
(c) Athens and Thrace
(d) Athens and Corinth

5. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?
(a) The upper classes
(b) The would-be generals
(c) The commoners of Lesbos
(d) The shipbuilders

Short Answer Questions

1. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?

2. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?

3. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?

4. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Rather than meet the Peloponnesian land forces head on, what was Pericles' recommendation?

2. What military innovation appeared in 424 BC?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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