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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. After the war begins, what diplomatic success does Athens have?
(a) Athens concludes alliances with Odrysian, Thrace, and Macedonia .
(b) Gaining a neutrality pact from Persia.
(c) Making a peace deal with Corinth.
(d) Athens successfully launches an anti-Spartan publicity attack.

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

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

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

5. Who are the peltasts?
(a) Unarmored men throwing darted missiles
(b) Suicide attackers
(c) Stone age warriors
(d) Barbarian mercenaries

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the winter of 423 BC on the part of Sparta?

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

3. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

4. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?

5. What opinion does Thucydides seem to have about Pericles as a leader?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Brasidas during the unsuccessful assault on Pylos?

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

4. Simultaneous to the blockade of Mytilene, what offensive action was taken by Athens?

5. What did Thucydides identify as the starting point of the war?

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

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

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

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

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

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