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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the place where the ephors live emit from the rocks?
(a) Fumes
(b) Blood
(c) Poisonous waters
(d) Black tar

2. Who is the misshapen and hunchbacked man who approaches the Spartans?
(a) Dilians
(b) Oracle
(c) Xerxes
(d) Ephialtes

3. What does the boy return to Sparta wrapped in so as to show his victory?
(a) Cape
(b) Wolf pelt
(c) Nothing
(d) A robe of leaves

4. How many warriors is Leonidas going to be joined by on his walk away from his home?
(a) 30
(b) 3000
(c) 300
(d) 30,000

5. Before the armies match to Hot Gates, where do they have to pass in their march?
(a) Hell's Hair
(b) Brimstone
(c) Hell's Gate
(d) Hell's Mouth

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refused to abandon Ephialtes' mother, which also helped to save him?

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

3. What happens when the Persian visitor first enters the camp of the Greeks?

4. What do the soldiers see driven to the shore? Elements of the ______________.

5. How old is the boy in the story of the wolf that the men like to hear again and again?

(see the answer key)

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