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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What natural phenomenon takes place in Italy in 426 BC?
(a) Mt. Aetna eruptes.
(b) Heavy rains and floods come that year.
(c) A tsunami hits southern Italy.
(d) A meteor creates a vast crater in Italy.

2. What are the four major geographic areas listed in Book One?
(a) Attica, the Peloponnesus, Western Hellas and Thrace.
(b) Athens, Persia, Corint and the Aegean.
(c) Egypt, Syria, Greece and Asia Minor.
(d) Sparta, Thebes, the Hellespont and Ephesus.

3. What did Sparta demand of her allies?
(a) To surround Attica
(b) To build a massive fleet
(c) To send their troops to Sparta for training
(d) To Take Trace and Macedon

4. Where is the initial confrontation between Sparta and the Athenians?
(a) Sparta utilizes Persian ships to attack from the Aegean Sea.
(b) A huge Peloponnesian army is assembled at the isthmus leading to Attica which is then invaded
(c) The Athenians send an advance force into the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(d) Spartan commandos infiltrate Athenian camps.

5. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?
(a) The commoners of Lesbos
(b) The would-be generals
(c) The shipbuilders
(d) The upper classes

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the book historically divided by modern scholars?

2. While the Spartan fleet is at sea, what is happening in Mytilene?

3. What is Thucydides' conclusion about the ravages of the war?

4. What is the main result of the 428 BC attack on Attica?

5. What is Athens doing toward the end of the 526 BC campaign?

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