View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Theban attack able to precipitate the war?
(a) False information has Thebes invading Athens.
(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) It threatenes to weaken the Spartan strength and made immediate war necessary.

2. What serious setback happens to Athens in 413 BC?
(a) All of Athens' allies desert to Sparta.
(b) There is an earthquake that destroys the walls around Athens.
(c) The plague returns, wiping out two thirds of the Athenian military.
(d) The Athenian fleet is decisively destroyed in Sicily during the winter of 413 BC.

3. From Thucydides' analysis, who of the Mytilene population actually wants to break away from the Delian League?
(a) The upper classes
(b) The would-be generals
(c) The commoners of Lesbos
(d) The shipbuilders

4. What innovation does Gylippus utilize in the second battle at Syracuse?
(a) Catapults
(b) Cavalry
(c) Explosives
(d) Battering rams

5. How did Thucydides see the period of 422 to 421 BC?
(a) A period of rearmament for both sides
(b) A time when no military operations are launched.
(c) Part of a continuous military struggle with a lull included.
(d) An era of more guerilla warfare

Short Answer Questions

1. What suggests that the account of Cleon's accomplishments is not thoroughly documented?

2. What does Thucydides say about the new Peloponnesian triremes?

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

4. At the time of the Athenian fortification of Pylos, what is happening in Corcyra?

5. Who is the first Athenian to suggest fortifying Pylos?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 373 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample