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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes it plausible that Thucydides begins his history from first-hand knowledge?
(a) He is associated with the highest levels of diplomacy in the early days.
(b) He is a financier who has connections in high places.
(c) His father is Athenian and his mother is from Sparta.
(d) He is a wealthy Athenian and general in the early days of the war.

2. In 424 BC, how does Sparta change its military methods?
(a) They invent the catapult.
(b) They formalize defensive units of archers and cavalry.
(c) They add extra soldiers to their infantry.
(d) They become more proficient sailors.

3. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Germany and Austria
(b) Egypt and Spain
(c) The Galapogas Islands
(d) Persia, Italy and Sicily, and the Aegean seas and islands

4. What is the significance of Thucydides' inclusion of the story of Aristogiton and Harmodius?
(a) It is an important event that is glossed over lightly.
(b) It is a nearly unique authorial digression from the history of the war itself.
(c) It has nothing to do with either Athens or Sparta.
(d) It is a strange inclusion of Greek superstition.

5. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta
(b) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer
(c) Under seige from the spartans
(d) As part of their alliance with Thebes

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Spartan ground forces marooned after the battle for Pylos?

2. When Alcibiades is eventually recalled for blasphemy, what does he do?

3. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?

4. What major battle occurs in the winter of 415 BC?

5. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?

(see the answer key)

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