1. What happens to the annual raids on Attica in 426 BC?
(a) Athens is ready for Sparta at the Attica border.
(b) They are postponed because of a lingering winter.
(c) The Spartans decide to try something else.
(d) The Peloponnesian army is prevented from ravaging Attica by a series of earthquakes.

2. How do the Spartans react about their marooned troops?
(a) Spartans accept that their troops are lost.
(b) Spartans recall troops from Corcyra to march against Pylos.
(c) Spartans at home, eager to save their men, send peace envoys from Pylos to the Athenians.
(d) Spartans charge Pylos on the blind side.

3. Why does Thucydides say that Sparta chose to go to war against Athens?
(a) Because of Athens' great political power at the time.
(b) Because Athens refuses to join the Peloponnesian League.
(c) Because Spartan soldiers need war to stay in shape.
(d) Because Athens is interfering in Spartan politics.

4. What natural phenomenon affects the war at the same time as a failed peace envoy to Sparta?
(a) Cyclones sweep across the eastern side of Greece.
(b) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(c) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.
(d) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.

5. What is Athens doing toward the end of the 526 BC campaign?
(a) Athens is sending out envoys to even more surrounding states.
(b) Athens is adding to its already sizable fleet.
(c) Athens is reenforcing its position in Attica.
(d) Much of the latter campaign season is consumed by Athenian attacks upon Aetolia.