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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the year in the only dates frame in this first chapter?
(a) 500 BC
(b) 420 BC
(c) 480 BC
(d) 460 BC

2. Who gives the nickname to the man who has fallen down during their march?
(a) Dilios
(b) Stelios
(c) Ephialtes
(d) Leonidas

3. What does the person to speak with the ephors offer to them for their treason?
(a) An elephant
(b) Jar of earth and water
(c) Signed surrender
(d) Gold coins

4. What does the boy lead the stalking animal into that proves to be the demise of the animal?
(a) Narrow fissure in the cliff
(b) Sea
(c) Goat's pass
(d) Cave

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

6. What caused the destruction of the items from the question #68?
(a) Violent storm
(b) Magic
(c) Persian traitors
(d) Oracle

7. The men are wearing heavy __________ helmets as they are marching to meet their enemy.
(a) Gold
(b) Copper
(c) Bronze
(d) Silver

8. The oracle announces that Sparta will ________________.
(a) Retreat
(b) Be famous in its flames
(c) Be victorious
(d) Be destroyed

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

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

11. What does the king tell the men they will go without because of the incident with the captain and the beating?
(a) Weapons for the battle
(b) Clothing for the night
(c) Water for the day
(d) Food for the day

12. The object of the march of the men is glory and _________ as they march to meet their enemies.
(a) Money
(b) Pride
(c) Blood
(d) Honor

13. The ___________ King is in command of all of the soldiers who have finally arrived at the Hot Gates.
(a) Roman
(b) Spartan
(c) Greek
(d) Persian

14. Leonidas muses that his distant rival, ___________, has already refused the Persian envoy's demands, so he does too.
(a) Istanbul
(b) Hamburg
(c) Rome
(d) Athens

15. Why does the storyteller tell the rest of the men stories as they sit around at camp?
(a) To humor them
(b) To warn them
(c) To educate them
(d) To inspire them

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who leads the force of Arcadian Greeks that Leonidas encounters on his way to battle?

3. What kind of terrain is Leonidas leading his men over as the day continues to be hot and oppressive?

4. ____________ realizes the Greeks have no hope of surviving the battle before them.

5. How many soldiers are thought to be in the area when the final Greek attachments join Leonidas and Daxos?

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