1. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?
(a) King Xerxes trusts Xeones, and declares his words true.
(b) Artemisia tells the king that the surgeons would not have known of such an attack.
(c) Mardonius speaks up for Xeones' honor.
(d) Orontes, captain of the Immortals informs the king that Xeones was never once left alone with them.

2. What question does Dienekes tell Alexandros has haunted him his whole life?
(a) Why does fear hold such power over men?
(b) What is the opposite of fear?
(c) Why do men fight wars?
(d) What exactly is fear?

3. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?
(a) The wooden wall alone shall not fail you.
(b) Fly to the corners of the earth.
(c) The enemy will overrun and destroy you.
(d) Only with the Spartans may you defeat the enemy.

4. What does Leonidas do after the Antirhion king surrenders?
(a) He takes the survivors as slaves.
(b) He slaughters both soldiers and city folk alike.
(c) He executes the enemy soldiers, but allows the people in the city to survive.
(d) He spares the lives of the survivors and those in the city.

5. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?
(a) He comes to plunder the riches of Greece.
(b) He comes to have the Greek submit to him, and to have them offer him earth and water.
(c) He comes to avenge the death of his father.
(d) He comes to conquer the land for natural resources.