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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which political powers are at the epicenter of the Peloponnesian War?
(a) Athens and Thrace
(b) Athens and Corinth
(c) Athens and Sparta
(d) Athens and Macedon

2. Who are the Helots?
(a) Serfs who are little more than Spartan slaves
(b) A minor political party in Sparta
(c) Greeks from Helotia
(d) Athenian spies in Sparta

3. How are Spartan envoys able to get through the Athenian blockade of Mytilene?
(a) In those days, envoys are always given safe passage.
(b) They disguise themselves as merchant ships.
(c) They go around and come in on the back side of Lesbos.
(d) They infiltrate the Athenians and get into the city.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How might the Spartan envoy to the Athenians have changed history?

2. Who are the Athenian hoplites?

3. How is the Delian League founded?

4. After the prominent Spartan general, Pausanias, briefly becomes politically powerful, what causes his defeat?

5. How is Athens insulted by Megara and Euboea about the same time as the Boeotian revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. Simultaneous to the blockade of Mytilene, what offensive action was taken by Athens?

2. What happened to the Spartan fleet dispatched to Mytilene?

3. What complicates the chronology of Thucydides' history?

4. What event showed that the situation between Athens and Sparta was tenuous at best?

5. What was unusual about Spartan use of new methods of war?

6. In 426 BC, what prevented the annual invasion of Attica by the Peloponnesian forces?

7. What was Sparta's advantage in the war?

8. What was Thucydides' reaction to the aftermath of the Corcyran revolt?

9. How did Athens rise to its highest political power?

10. How did Athens respond to the attack on Attica?

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