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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 charismatic individual rises to prominence in 420 BC?
(a) Alcibiades
(b) Nicias
(c) Socrates
(d) Pericles

2. At first, what action by Athens signifies a lack of understanding of the defeat at Syracuse?
(a) They raise taxes and duties for military spending.
(b) They launch an attack on Sparta.
(c) They believe their allies will not desert them.
(d) They vote to build more ships and press forward with the war.

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

4. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
(a) Form a successful naval blockade
(b) Create an Athenian-dominated, anti-Spartan alliance.
(c) Surround Sparta
(d) Establish new strongholds

5. How is Argos able to withstand the Spartans?
(a) There is intervention and the Spartans have to retreat.
(b) They ally with Athens who fights with them.
(c) They have impenetrable walls.
(d) Argos has new military weaponry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Thucydides see the period of 422 to 421 BC?

3. What happens at Amphipolis?

4. What further mischief does a former Athenian general create in 412 BC?

5. What indicates Athens' former military superiority as late as 412 BC?

Short Essay Questions

1. What shenanigan was attributed to Alcibiades prior to his setting sail for Sicily?

2. What explanation is given to the stylistic density and complexity of History of the Peloponnesian War?

3. What happened in Athens after the revolt of Euboea?

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

5. Besides a war history, what value is placed on the History of the Peloponnesian War?

6. What happened to the dialogue between Melos and Athens?

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

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

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

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

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