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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Athenian hoplites?
(a) Salves taken from Lesbos
(b) Helots who fled Sparta after the earthquake
(c) Religious fanatics
(d) Heavily-armed military infantry

2. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?
(a) Socrates
(b) Pericles
(c) Androclese
(d) Thucydides

3. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?
(a) They hold new elections.
(b) The economy is growing from sales of weapons.
(c) They are disbanding their army.
(d) There is a revolt.

4. Book One concludes in the winter before hostilities erupt. What date is given by modern scholars for this time?
(a) 432/431 BC
(b) 410/409 BC
(c) 421/420 BC
(d) 398/397 BC

5. When the annual siege of Attica begins in 427 BC, what naval move does Sparta make?
(a) Sparta sets up a defense against Athenian hit-and-run raids.
(b) Sparta dispatches a fleet to Lesbos.
(c) Sparta orderes new ships for Egypt.
(d) Sparta abandons any naval involvement at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

2. What is a major upset to Athens during 447 through 446 BC?

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

4. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?

5. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?

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