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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 are most of the skirmishes fought in 411 BC?
(a) At Lycros
(b) The Hellespont
(c) In Miletus
(d) In Crete
2. What major battle occurs in the winter of 415 BC?
(a) Thrace versus Thebes
(b) Athens versus Syracuse
(c) Sicily versus Macedonia
(d) Sparta versus Italy
3. What are the Athenians doing in Italy at about the same time?
(a) Calling an international conference
(b) Regrouping to attack Peloponnesus
(c) Taking a break from the war
(d) Preparing to invade Syracuse
4. Who arrives in Sicily and changes the course of the conflict with Athens?
(a) Myron
(b) Agamemnon
(c) Gylippus
(d) Brasias
5. What unexplainable surprising event takes place with the patriotic Athenian army?
(a) Civil war breaks out within the city of Athens led by Nicias.
(b) The patriotic Athenian army makes a pact with Sparta.
(c) The patriotic Athenian army faction on Samos recalls Alcibiades and elects him general.
(d) The army disbands leaving Athens open to attack.
Short Answer Questions
1. What charismatic individual rises to prominence in 420 BC?
2. How do scholars generally explain the contradictions in Thucydides' text?
3. What is Alcibiades able to do in the Peloponnesus?
4. What s Sparta's excuse to resume major hostilities against Athens?
5. What is the historic view of the years from 421 to 413 BC?
Short Essay Questions
1. What shenanigan was attributed to Alcibiades prior to his setting sail for Sicily?
2. What was the mindset of Athens after the defeats at Syracuse?
3. After the defeat at Syracuse, what was the condition of of the Athenian league?
4. What unusual twist of fortune occurred for Alcibiades in 411 BC?
5. What unusual event transpired at Amphipolis in 422 BC and how did Thucydides view the results?
6. What is today generally referred to as the peace of Nicias?
7. To what did Thucydides attribute the final rout of the Athenian navy in the harbor at Syracuse?
8. What feature of Thucydides' writing would not be acceptable in historical writing today?
9. How did the peace of Nicias finally break down?
10. Who was the charismatic Athenian who promulgated an anti-Spartan alliance in the Peloponnesus? What weakness did he seem to have?
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