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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.
(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) They are able to withstand a long seige.

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

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

4. Where is the fourth major area where much of the early activity takes place?
(a) Kurdistan
(b) Kosovo
(c) Thrace
(d) Macedon

5. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.
(b) There is a serious debate over which league would be allied to Thebes.
(c) Athens and Sparta both embrace the Theban attack as the justification for, and opportunity toward, a greater conflict.
(d) False information has Thebes invading Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?

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

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

4. How does Corinth enter the war?

5. Paragraphs 89 through118 are referred to as the Pentecontaetia and deal with what aspect of the history?

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