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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Helots?
(a) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves
(b) A minor political party in Sparta
(c) Athenian spies in Sparta
(d) Greeks from Helotia

2. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.
(b) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(c) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.
(d) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.

3. The war is between what two powers?
(a) The Persian Empire and Sparta.
(b) Greece and Italy.
(c) The Corinthian Empire and the Macedonians.
(d) The Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian League, an alliance of city-states led by Sparta.

4. Where is is the Peloponnesus itself?
(a) The Southern tip of Greece
(b) In the Cyclades
(c) On the Northwestern coast of Greece
(d) Just North of Attica

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What complication does geographic scope add to the difficulty of reading Book One?

2. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?

3. What political action does Sparta take in 432 BC?

4. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?

5. How is the Delian League founded?

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