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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 is the net result of Gylippus' demand for more and better triremes?
(a) The ships do not perform as expected.
(b) More of the fighting takes place on the sea.
(c) It bankrupts the country.
(d) A disastrous defeat of the Athenian fleet

2. What does Athens do in Scione?
(a) Establishes a new military base of operations
(b) Prepares for a long winter
(c) Gains another ally
(d) Executes the men and enslaves the women and children

3. What happens at Amphipolis?
(a) Brasidas is defeated by Cleon's forces.
(b) Cleon loses his right arm in the battle at Amphipolis.
(c) There is a great battle that ended in a stand-off.
(d) Cleon is defeated by an audacious attack by Brasidas and both generals are killed in the fighting.

4. Who are the main antagonists over the military strategy in 416 BC?
(a) Brasias and Pericles
(b) Thucydides and Cleon
(c) Nician and Alcibiades
(d) Alexander and Phillip

5. Why is Book 5 of the History of the Peloponnesian War such a short book?
(a) Much of the history during that time is lost.
(b) There is only one battle during that time.
(c) Thucydides has to leave Athens in a hurry.
(d) There are fewer conflicts spread out over a number of years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unexplainable surprising event takes place with the patriotic Athenian army?

2. What happens in 411 BC to the Athenian democracy after the defeat at Syracuse?

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

4. After military setbacks, what disagreement arses between Nicias and Demosthenes?

5. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Alcibiades respond to his recall to face charges of blasphemy?

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

3. What historical turning point is inaugurated by Athens in 415 BC?

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

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

6. What design changes in the new Peloponnesian triremes made them more effective against the Athenian navy?

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

8. What was Thucydides' intention for his history of the war in terms of future reference?

9. How did the arrival of Gylippus made a difference in the Athenian attack on Syracuse?

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

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