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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?
(a) Megara and Euboea revolt against Athens and tentatively join Sparta's Peloponnesian league.
(b) Megara and Euboea join with the Persians against Athens.
(c) Megara and Euboea stope sending taxes to Athens.
(d) Megara and Euboea recall their soldiers from the Athenian army.

2. What appears to be a mistake made by the Athenian forces under Pericles?
(a) Athens occupies Aegina and ejects the citizens who are subsequently resettled by Sparta in Thyrea.
(b) Athens attempts an embargo against Sparta.
(c) Athens ignores the possible danger Corinth might become.
(d) Athens attempts to fortify all of Attica.

3. What notable Spartan is wounded at Pylos?
(a) Brasidas
(b) Nicias
(c) Sparticus
(d) Prothagoras

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

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

6. What happens immediately after the defeat of the Corcyran fleet?
(a) Winter sets in and the hostilities cease.
(b) Athens leaves Corcyra to defend itself.
(c) Sparta withdraws to rebuild its fleet.
(d) The Athenian fleet defeates the Peloponesian fleet.

7. What are the dates of the Peloponnesian War ?
(a) 190 BC to 25 AD
(b) 380 to 45 BC
(c) 525 to 480 BC
(d) 431 to 404 BC

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

9. Which government did Sparta seek to form an alliance with in spite of earlier conflicts?
(a) Egypt
(b) Thrace
(c) Persia
(d) Corinth

10. Between Corinth and Corcyra, which side does Athens eventually decide to support?
(a) Both sides
(b) Corinth
(c) Corcyra
(d) Neither side

11. According to Cleon, why does the attack at Sphacteria stall?
(a) The curse of the gods
(b) Poor field management
(c) Not enough troops
(d) Too much rest time

12. 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) Up to the borders of the Persian Empire
(d) It is confined to Attica

13. What Athenian general becomes successful in 425 BC?
(a) Demosthenes leads Athenian troops and allies to victory over a combined Peloponnesian and Ambraciot army
(b) Alcibiades leads many successful raids into the Peloponesian isthmus.
(c) Androclese uses lions to put fear in the Spartan soldiers.
(d) Sophocles defeates the Spartans in Attica.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Book One considered difficult to read?

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

3. What is the stated purpose of Book One of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?

4. What catastrophic event leads to the revolt of the Helots?

5. What happens to the Athenian attack on Megara?

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