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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is doing the intense physical training depicted at the start of this chapter?
(a) Persians
(b) Young boys
(c) Spartans
(d) Leonidas

2. Who responds by hurting the Persian ambassador for trying to lash one of the army members?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Daxos
(c) Stelios
(d) Dilios

3. The Persian visitor offers to make Leonidas the _________________ of all Greece.
(a) King
(b) Absolute warlord
(c) Dictator
(d) Owner

4. What do the Persian army men wear on their heads as a part of their military uniforms?
(a) Wicker berets
(b) Turbans
(c) Helmets
(d) Metal pans

5. Who allows Ephialtes to speak with him in private about his wishes to be a part of the Spartan army?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Stelios
(c) Dilios
(d) Daxos

6. What does the second wave of the Persians come to the Spartans on?
(a) Horses
(b) Elephants
(c) Camels
(d) Wagons

7. Ephialtes is still angered by Leonidas' absolute ________________.
(a) Arrogance
(b) Pride
(c) Confidence
(d) Rejection

8. Who does the Persian visitor see butchered and impaled as he enters the camp?
(a) Animals
(b) Leonidas
(c) Scouts
(d) Xerxes

9. In the end of the battle between the Immortals and the Spartans, who ends up with their army entirely dead?
(a) Spartans
(b) No one
(c) Immortals
(d) Both

10. What happens when the Persian visitor first enters the camp of the Greeks?
(a) He is killed
(b) He is taken prisoner
(c) He is ignored
(d) He is lauded

11. Where are the babies left to die when they are seen to have troubles, like those in the answer to #89?
(a) Fields
(b) Fires
(c) Sea
(d) Boats

12. The pride of Xerxes causes him to want immediate ______________ from his personal bodyguard troops.
(a) Complicity
(b) Deaths
(c) Surrender
(d) Results

13. What does Leonidas order the Spartans to use as their formation when he begins to realize the power of the animals?
(a) Alpha Minora
(b) Hoplite phalanx
(c) Delta
(d) Lambda

14. Who takes the foremost point of the triangle in the new formation the Spartans take against the Persians?
(a) Daxos
(b) Leonidas
(c) Stelios
(d) Ephialtes

15. Who is watching from a distance and is becoming nervous that the Spartans might actually win?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Oracle
(c) Ephialtes
(d) Xerxes

Short Answer Questions

1. A Persian ____________ travels toward the Greek camp in order to speak with Leonidas

2. What kind of armor do the Persian soldiers wear, rendering them vulnerable to attack?

3. Spartan infants who show any ____________ are generally left to die.

4. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.

5. What do the Persians fire at the Spartans in hopes of breaking them down?

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