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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What puts a strain between Athens and Sparta after the revolt?
(a) Athens sends troops to aid the Spartans but they refuse their help.
(b) Sparta begins to resent Athens because they do not send aid.
(c) Athens supports the Helots against the leaders of Sparta.
(d) After the revolt, Athens incorporates large portians of Spartan held territory.

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

3. What distant event at this time would later prove important in the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Sicily invades Sparta.
(b) Sicily and Syracuse sign a defense pact.
(c) Syracuse invades Messana.
(d) Sparta invades Syracuse.

4. For Athens in 425 BC, what funny thing happens on the way to Sicily?
(a) The Athenian fleet is blown off course and lands in Crete.
(b) The Spartans mistake Athenian ships for theirs and let them pass.
(c) The fleet comes ashore and fortifies a base at Pylos in Sparta.
(d) The Athenians come upon new triremes headed for Sparta and sink them.

5. What is detailed in Book Two?
(a) A complex layout of the geography of the day
(b) The beginning history of the Peloponesian War
(c) The biographies of important individuals ca. 421 BC
(d) The formula Thucydides uses for writing the remainer of the history

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

7. What does the Spartan declaration of war against the Helots allow?
(a) The confiscation of Helot children.
(b) The killing of Helots by Spartan citizens without legal implication.
(c) It is only an exercise in legal maneurving.
(d) The legal means to take away the Helots' weaponry.

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

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

10. Where is is the Peloponnesus itself?
(a) In the Cyclades
(b) The Southern tip of Greece
(c) On the Northwestern coast of Greece
(d) Just North of Attica

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

12. What happens between Sparta and Athens in 423 BC?
(a) The exchange of prisoners of war
(b) A time out to bury their dead
(c) A major battle in Attica
(d) A truce of sorts

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

14. What advantage does Athens have while Sparta occupies Attica?
(a) They are able to go around the Spartan forces and snipe at the rear flanks.
(b) Athens has the resources to buy off the Spartan forces.
(c) Sparta cannot get its troops across the rugged terrain.
(d) They are able to withstand a long seige.

15. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?
(a) If Sparta offers to cede land, the war would end.
(b) Is Sparta surrenders Brasias, the war would end.
(c) If the Spartan envoy is not assassinated, the war would end.
(d) If Sparta's offer for peace is accepted, the war would end.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sparta demand of her allies?

2. What action is Athens taking in Sicily and Italy?

3. Who are the Athenian hoplites?

4. What event precipitates the beginning of the war?

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

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