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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. How does Leonidas appear to Xerxes in his dream?
(a) Xerxes sees Leonidas as whole and alive once again.
(b) Xerxes sees Leonidas beheaded, with his body nailed to a tree and his head impaled on a spike.
(c) Xerxes sees Leonidas as a vengeful spirit, ready to haunt Xerxes or eternity.
(d) Xerxes sees Leonidas as he might have been as a child.

2. Who does Diomache take with her?
(a) She doesn't take anyone.
(b) She takes the dog, Happy.
(c) She takes the old blind slave, Bruxieus.
(d) She takes the dog, Lucky.

3. What nation is the second to assault the Greeks?
(a) The Armenians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(b) The Egyptians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(c) The Medes are the second group sent by the Persians.
(d) The Sacae are the second group sent by the Persians.

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

5. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?
(a) They were afraid of the Persians, and fled.
(b) They got the time wrong, as the months have different names than in Sparta.
(c) They were already defeated.
(d) They turned to the Persian side.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the soldiers show their disfavor when Polynikes is scolding Alexandros?

2. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?

3. What is the last thing that Xerxes says to Xeones as Chapter 19 closes?

4. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?

5. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?

(see the answer key)

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