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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main concern after Athens fortified Pylos?
(a) Leading generals fear Athenians might carry the plague.
(b) The leading general fears an Athenian advance deep into the Peloponnesus.
(c) Sparta fears that their citizens might defect.
(d) Sparta fears the Helots might join with the Athenians.

2. What happens when Athens attempts to invade Boeotia?
(a) The Boeotians escape to the mountains.
(b) The oracle at Delphi forbids the invasion.
(c) The Athenians run out of supplies and have to retreat.
(d) They suffers a disastrous defeat.

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

4. What desecration of religious idols is charged to Alcibiades?
(a) The vandalism of the Hermae of Athens
(b) Setting fire to the temple of Apollo
(c) The stoning of the Oracle at Delphi
(d) Knocking over the statues of Athena

5. What happens at Amphipolis?
(a) Cleon loses his right arm in the battle at Amphipolis.
(b) There is a great battle that ended in a stand-off.
(c) Cleon is defeated by an audacious attack by Brasidas and both generals are killed in the fighting.
(d) Brasidas is defeated by Cleon's forces.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Helot uprising in Sparta, what action does Athens take?

2. In the same year as the Plataea defeat, what is happening in Corcyra?

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

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

5. Why is Alcibiades not brought to trial immediately after the vandalism for which he is blamed?

(see the answer key)

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