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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is detailed in Book Two?
(a) The biographies of important individuals ca. 421 BC
(b) The formula Thucydides uses for writing the remainer of the history
(c) The beginning history of the Peloponesian War
(d) A complex layout of the geography of the day

3. What appears to be a mistake made by the Athenian forces under Pericles?
(a) Athens ignores the possible danger Corinth might become.
(b) Athens attempts to fortify all of Attica.
(c) Athens attempts an embargo against Sparta.
(d) Athens occupies Aegina and ejects the citizens who are subsequently resettled by Sparta in Thyrea.

4. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?
(a) Egypt
(b) Corinth
(c) Persia
(d) Thrace

5. What is the general title given to the first twenty-three paragraphs of Book One?
(a) The Preamble
(b) The Introduction
(c) The Apology
(d) The Archaelogy

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?

3. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?

4. Who prevents the Athenian army from marching out to meet the Spartans?

5. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?

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