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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What composes what Thucydides calls Western Hellas?
(a) Arcanania, Ambracia, Corcyra, Epidamnus, the Ionian Islands, and Naupactus, among others
(b) Prygia, Lydia, and Caria
(c) The entire country of Greece on the Ionian Sea
(d) Macedon, Ipiris, and Caphellenia

2. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) They are able to withstand a long seige.
(b) Athens has the resources to buy off the Spartan forces.
(c) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(d) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.

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

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

5. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) It is confined to Attica
(b) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace
(c) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus
(d) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Helots?

2. Where is the initial confrontation between Sparta and the Athenians?

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

4. Where is is the Peloponnesus itself?

5. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

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