Quiz for Primary Source 3.2: Thucydides on the Great Plague at Athens

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Correct. The answer is c. As Thucydides described it, the agony associated with the disease “seemed almost beyond the capacity of human nature to endure.”
Incorrect. The answer is c. As Thucydides described it, the agony associated with the disease “seemed almost beyond the capacity of human nature to endure.”

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Correct. The answer is d. In Thucydides’ account, the people of Athens gave themselves up to pleasure and forgot entirely about law and morality.
Incorrect. The answer is d. In Thucydides’ account, the people of Athens gave themselves up to pleasure and forgot entirely about law and morality.

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Correct. The answer is a. Thucydides’ description of the symptoms, combined with evidence from the remains of victims of the disease, has led many scholars to believe that Athens was struck by a typhoid epidemic.
Incorrect. The answer is a. Thucydides’ description of the symptoms, combined with evidence from the remains of victims of the disease, has led many scholars to believe that Athens was struck by a typhoid epidemic.

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Correct. The answer is c. Thucydides went into great detail about the symptoms and course of the disease, taking care to give an accurate and objective account.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Thucydides went into great detail about the symptoms and course of the disease, taking care to give an accurate and objective account.