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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Xerxes, Chapter 5 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two narrators of this story?
(a) Ball Player and Rooster are the narrators.
(b) There is only one narrator, Xeones.
(c) Xerxes and Leonidas are the narrators.
(d) The scribe and Xeones are the narrators.

2. What does the Egyptian tell the Spartans about the Persian invasion?
(a) He tells them that the Persians would be easily defeated while still at sea.
(b) He tells them that Xerxes will slaughter them regardless of what they do.
(c) He tells them to join Xerxes voluntarily like the Egyptians did.
(d) He tells them to never surrender.

3. How does Xeones describe Dienekes?
(a) He describes him as a young warrior, inexperienced in battle, but fierce and strong.
(b) He describes him as a great hero.
(c) He describes him as a warrior over forty-years-old who carries wounds from many battles.
(d) He describes him as a silly old man, full of outdated ideas.

4. What does Dienekes teach about fear?
(a) He teaches that fear defeats the enemies of Sparta.
(b) He teaches that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
(c) He teaches that fear is silly and unmanly.
(d) He teaches that fear is a very real, and dangerous thing.

5. Who sacks the city-state that was the birthplace of Xeones?
(a) The Carthagians sack the city-state.
(b) The Argives sack the city-state.
(c) The Persians sack the city-state.
(d) The Spartans sack the city-state.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sons has Arete born Dienekes?

2. What is Xeones trying to steal when he is caught?

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

4. How are Spartan boys punished?

5. As Chapter 2 opens, what does Xeones say that the word Thermopylae means?

(see the answer key)

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