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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. Where is the Attica-Euboea-Boeotia area of Greece?
(a) The area East of the Peloponnesian Isthmus
(b) The area West of the Peloponnesian Isthmus
(c) The area directly North of the Peloponnesian Isthmus
(d) The area South of the Peloponnesian Isthmus

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

3. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) It is confined to Attica
(b) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus
(c) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire
(d) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace

4. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Thucydides
(b) Pericles
(c) Socrates
(d) Androclese

5. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?
(a) Egypt
(b) Thrace
(c) Corinth
(d) Persia

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?

2. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?

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 Athenian general becomes successful in 425 BC?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Thucydides' attitude toward so-called supernatural occurrences?

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

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

7. What military innovation appeared in 424 BC?

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

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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