2. How does Corinth enter the war?
(a) As opportunists hoping to divide and conquer
(b) Under seige from the spartans
(c) Independently and not yet allied with Sparta
(d) As part of their alliance with Thebes

3. What is Thucydides' conclusion about the ravages of the war?
(a) It is misrepresented on both sides.
(b) It is tempered on both sides by benevolence.
(c) It is dehumanizing.
(d) It is something to be glorified.

4. In the early days of the war, which power seems to have the upper hand?
(a) Thrace
(b) Corinth
(c) Sparta
(d) Athens

5. By the end of Book Two, how widespread is the war?
(a) From the Peloponnesian coast all the way up into Thrace
(b) Limited to the Peleponnesian isthmus
(c) It is confined to Attica
(d) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire

6. What happens after the Athenian fleet arrives in Corcyra?
(a) Corcyra defeats the Athenians.
(b) Athens sends peace envoys to Lesbos.
(c) They have a big party to celebrate.
(d) There is wholesale slaughter of the political opposition.

7. 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) The plague appears in Lesbos, then Athens, and then Potidaea.
(c) A tsunami causes widespread destruction in the Peloponnesian isthmus.
(d) An earthquake brings down much of Athens' walls.

8. Why do the Spartans fear the Helots?
(a) The Helots have treaties with the Athenians.
(b) The Helots outnumber the Spartans.
(c) The Helots control most of the money.
(d) The Helots are adept at warfare.

9. How is the Delian League founded?
(a) By the military force of Athens at the time.
(b) Through a series of political treaties binding most Greek cities-states to Athens.
(c) By a convention of city-states seeking protection from Persia.
(d) By the wide spread acceptance of Plato's Republic.

10. Who owns the Helots?
(a) The Spartan merchants
(b) Individual Spartan citizens
(c) The Persian who farms them out to Sparta.
(d) The Spartan state

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

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

13. Who are the Athenian hoplites?
(a) Helots who fled Sparta after the earthquake
(b) Salves taken from Lesbos
(c) Religious fanatics
(d) Heavily-armed military infantry

14. In the case of a conquered land, what is the general practice of that time regarding private property?
(a) The conquered people are allowed to keep their land.
(b) The land is redistributed among the citizens of the conquered country.
(c) All the land becomes public property administered by the state.
(d) Land is confiscated and given to citizens of the conquering nation.

15. During the winter of 427 BC, what returns to Athens?
(a) The Athenian soldiers from Corcyra
(b) The money owned to the Delian League
(c) The plague
(d) The Athenian fleet