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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. What does Sparta do in 414 BC?
(a) Gives command of their armies to Alcibiades.
(b) Sends new peace envoys to Athens.
(c) Twice invades Argos.
(d) Makes an alliance with Argos.

2. What is the resulting military action after the revolt of Chios?
(a) A surprise attack on Athens by Sparta and Syracuse
(b) A combined Athenian and Argive force achieves a victory at Miletus but then retires as a larger Peloponnesian relief force approaches.
(c) A larger revolt involving more of the Delian League allies
(d) The arrival of a Persian fleet in the Aegean Sea

3. What happens in Attica during the time of the battle at Amphipolis?
(a) The Boeotians enjoy military success in Attica.
(b) The Crocyrans launch a successful attack.
(c) All of Attica is annexed by Sparta.
(d) The farmers are allowed to return to their fields.

4. How do the Athenians respond to the many defeats suffered in 414 BC?
(a) They continue to pour their resources and personnel into the Syracusan conflict.
(b) They order the Athenian navy to return to Athens.
(c) They refuse to believe that it is as bad as reported.
(d) They recall Demosthenes and put him on trial.

5. How do scholars from other disciplines consider the value of Thucydides' work?
(a) Its' politics are not consistent with other writers' interpretations.
(b) It provides enough corollary materials that is has been the subject of scrutiny across a diverse field of studies.
(c) Social analysts cannot get a picture of the development of democratic institutions.
(d) The strange chronology makes it useless for other fields of study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?

2. What are many Syracusans advocating prior to the arrival of Gylippus?

3. How does Thucydides write about important speeches and rhetoric during his time?

4. What practice does Thucydides not value other than recognizing its effect on politics and the military?

5. How does the text of Thucydides' history end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What unusual event transpired at Amphipolis in 422 BC and how did Thucydides view the results?

2. To what did Thucydides attribute the final rout of the Athenian navy in the harbor at Syracuse?

3. What was so alarming about the revolt of Chios?

4. What unusual twist of fortune occurred for Alcibiades in 411 BC?

5. What feature of Thucydides' writing would not be acceptable in historical writing today?

6. In 411 BC, what happened to Athenian democracy?

7. What is today generally referred to as the peace of Nicias?

8. Aside from the disintegration of Athens and its allies, what was the political/military condition of the Grecian world in 412 BC?

9. What was the mindset of Athens after the defeats at Syracuse?

10. How did Syracuse put the Athenian forces on the defensive?

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