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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Polynikes, Chapter 18 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
(a) There are fifty thousand men.
(b) There are twenty thousand.
(c) There are several thousand.
(d) There are only three hundred.

2. To whom does Rooster become a squire?
(a) He becomes the squire of Leonidas.
(b) He becomes the squire of Xerxes.
(c) He becomes the squire of Olympieus.
(d) He became the squire of Dienekes.

3. Where does the Spartan king march and fight, relative to the rest of his army?
(a) The king commands from the back of the army where it is safer.
(b) The king usually stays at the center of his army, so that his men surround him at all times.
(c) The king does not go with his army, but sends a general in his stead.
(d) The king remains at the front of the lines, where he can be a part of the action at all times.

4. What do the people of Sparta sing as the soldiers march off to war?
(a) They sing the hymn to Castor.
(b) They sing the Spartan anthem.
(c) They sing praises to the god Apollo.
(d) They sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

5. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?
(a) He numbers it at about two million men.
(b) He numbers it at one hundred ships.
(c) He numbers it at sixty squadrons.
(d) He says that the Persian fleet is innumerable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dienekes tell Alexandros after Polynikes' lecture?

2. What is the name of the half helot friend of Xeones?

3. What is the purpose of the speech Leonidas gives after this battle?

4. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?

5. Which of the following is not one of the activities listed as part of Spartan life?

(see the answer key)

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