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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem soon arises for Athens?
(a) They begin having to travel farther for supplies.
(b) They have a large number of military desertions.
(c) Their triremes begin needing major repairs.
(d) The treasury is rapidly being depleted.

2. What action is Athens taking in Sicily and Italy?
(a) Athenian troops capture a few small cities in Sicily and Locris in Italy.
(b) Athens is building new triremes to attack from the West.
(c) Athens is raising additional armies.
(d) Athens is establishing diplomatic relations in Sicily and italy.

3. What natural phenomenon takes place in Italy in 426 BC?
(a) Heavy rains and floods come that year.
(b) A meteor creates a vast crater in Italy.
(c) A tsunami hits southern Italy.
(d) Mt. Aetna eruptes.

4. 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 pulls out of the conflict between Corinth and Athens.
(d) Sparta begins adding more allies to the Peloponnesian League.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Athens intervenes in Corcyra, what does Thucydides observe?

2. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?

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

4. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?

5. What are the most far reaching of the participants in the Peloponnesian War?

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