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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?
(a) Sparticus
(b) Nicias
(c) Brasidas
(d) Prothagoras

2. What happens when Athens attempts to invade Boeotia?
(a) The Boeotians escape to the mountains.
(b) The Athenians run out of supplies and have to retreat.
(c) The oracle at Delphi forbids the invasion.
(d) They suffers a disastrous defeat.

3. Why does Thucydides suddenly include more information on Peloponnesian events?
(a) Thucydides' exile somehow gains him greater access to Peloponnesian sources.
(b) He goes to Pylos and stays there for a long time.
(c) He is able to travel to Sparta under the protection of an envoy.
(d) He finds a Peloponnesian collabarator.

4. After the Spartan forces give up the Attica offensive, what does Athens continue to do?
(a) Hit-and-run naval attacks on the Peloponesian isthmus
(b) Stockpile commodities against future Spartan attacks
(c) Press for a military truce and peace treaty
(d) Build higher walls around Athens

5. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Sicily invades Sparta.
(b) Sparta invades Syracuse.
(c) Syracuse invades Messana.
(d) Sicily and Syracuse sign a defense pact.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it necessary for triremes to come ashore often?

2. What happens to the Spartan offer of peace?

3. How does Corinth enter the war?

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

5. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?

(see the answer key)

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