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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8: Thermopylae, Chapter 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Xerxes do about Xeones when he loses interest in the story?
(a) He orders that Xeones be killed.
(b) He orders Xeones to serve him as a slave.
(c) He orders Xeones to return to Greece.
(d) He orders the surgeons that had been keeping Xeones alive to abandon him.

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

3. How are Spartan boys punished?
(a) They are given harsh labor assignments as punishment.
(b) They are starved for short periods of time and totally ignored.
(c) They are whipped with sticks.
(d) They are locked in small rooms, called hotboxes.

4. What do the Spartans and their allies do when they see the Persians for the first time?
(a) They attack the Persians.
(b) They run away.
(c) They shout insults at the Persians.
(d) They surrender to the Persians.

5. What happens to the scribe after his term of service is up?
(a) He is ransomed back to the Persians, where he rejoins Xerxes' service.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is offered Greek citizenship.
(d) He is freed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Athenians call the high part of the city?

2. Who is Diomache?

3. Who were the first soldiers to arrive at Thermopylae?

4. Why do the Phokians miss the meeting?

5. How many men make up the party that attacks Xerxes' tent?

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