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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political action does Sparta take in 432 BC?
(a) Sparta holds a referrendum to see what their citizens want to do.
(b) Sparta decides to declare war against Athens.
(c) Sparta begins adding more allies to the Peloponnesian League.
(d) Sparta pulls out of the conflict between Corinth and Athens.

2. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) By a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.
(b) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.
(c) Through a series of political treaties binding most Greek cities-states to Athens.
(d) By the military force of Athens at the time.

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

4. What event in ca 479 BC gives rise to a period of prominence in Athens?
(a) Incorporation of the surrounding city-states
(b) Defeat of the Spartans
(c) Defeat of the invading Persian army
(d) The influence of Socratic philosophy

5. Why is Athens in a superior position at the start of the war?
(a) Because Athens has the largest army in the world at that time.
(b) Because the Athenian army is better trained and more rugged.
(c) Because her her allies are more numerous, richer, and better positioned to prosecute hostilities against the largely agrarian Spartans.
(d) Because Athens is built on an unassailable mountaintop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Attica-Euboea-Boeotia area of Greece?

2. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

3. In the early days of the war, which power seems to have the upper hand?

4. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?

5. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

(see the answer key)

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