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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. Who are the Helots?
(a) A minor political party in Sparta
(b) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves
(c) Athenian spies in Sparta
(d) Greeks from Helotia

2. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?
(a) Sparta sets up a defense against Athenian hit-and-run raids.
(b) Sparta abandons any naval involvement at all.
(c) Sparta orderes new ships for Egypt.
(d) Sparta dispatches a fleet to Lesbos.

3. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?
(a) Defeat of the invading Persian army
(b) Defeat of the Spartans
(c) Incorporation of the surrounding city-states
(d) The influence of Socratic philosophy

4. What opinion does Thucydides seem to have about Pericles as a leader?
(a) He blames him for the later defeats of the Athenians.
(b) He rates him as highly effectual.
(c) He thinks he is too passive.
(d) He faults him for not taking on Sparta sooner.

5. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Sparta invades Syracuse.
(b) Syracuse invades Messana.
(c) Sicily and Syracuse sign a defense pact.
(d) Sicily invades Sparta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the notable politician who is successful in diverting the attention of Sparta from the Athenians?

2. After Athens intervenes in Corcyra, what does Thucydides observe?

3. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?

4. At the time Athens is gaining control in Lesbos, what is happening in Plataea?

5. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the first major geographical area in the Peloponnesian War?

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

3. What might have ended the Peloponnesian war after the battle of Pylos?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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