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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Glory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.
(a) Roman
(b) Persian
(c) Athenian
(d) Phocian

2. What is the important Spartan religious festival that the ephors say cannot be a time of war?
(a) Carneia
(b) Gretisuis
(c) Saturnalia
(d) Easter

3. How long ago was the meeting with the ephors and the oracle?
(a) Two years
(b) Two months
(c) Two days
(d) Two weeks

4. What do the soldiers see driven to the shore? Elements of the ______________.
(a) Athenian princes
(b) Ephors
(c) Oracle
(d) Persian fleet

5. What do the Greeks exult over when they look out to the sea as they wait for battle?
(a) Clear sky
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Darkness falling
(d) Blood on the ground

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?

2. Where do the ephors that Leonidas needs to visit with actually live?

3. What does the Spartan soldier do to the Persian ambassador in response to his actions?

4. Which soldier succumbs to the heat, growing dizzy and stumbling around?

5. The men are wearing heavy __________ helmets as they are marching to meet their enemy.

(see the answer key)

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