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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7: Leonidas, Chapter 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is mothax?
(a) It is the highest title of honor for Spartans.
(b) It is freedom from taxes.
(c) It is the grade of warrior youths somewhere between full citizen and helot.
(d) It is a golden metal awarded for valor.

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

3. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?
(a) They are just leaving Thermopylae.
(b) They are in the hills outside of Thessaly.
(c) They are a few miles outside of Sparta.
(d) They are at the Three-Cornered Way in Attika.

4. How do Xeones and Alexandros get across the gulf?
(a) They take the ferry.
(b) They go around.
(c) They swim.
(d) They hire a boat.

5. Where is Rooster's mother's city?
(a) His mother's city is Messenia.
(b) His mother's city is Antirhion.
(c) His mother's city is Sparta.
(d) His mother's city is Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thermopylae is described as what?

2. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?

3. When the dog chases the rabbit between the two armies and then kills it, what do the Greeks think it means?

4. What happens to Xeones when he is caught stealing?

5. Where does Bruxieus tell Xeones and Diomache to go?

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