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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 Xeones become in the Spartan army?
(a) He becomes a spearman.
(b) He becomes an archer.
(c) He becomes a general.
(d) He becomes a swordsman.

2. When Xerxes goes on a rampage, what does he do in his rage?
(a) He kills all of his generals.
(b) He kills Xeones.
(c) He screams and destroys many of his own possessions.
(d) He kills some of his high ranking officers.

3. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him that she has been having an affair with Leonidas for years.
(b) She tells him that she has been in love with him for years.
(c) She tells him that the son of Rooster really was Dienekes' child.
(d) She tells him that she had been in love with Dienekes e since she was a young girl, even while married to his brother.

4. What epitaph is left for the Greeks who died at Thermopylae?
(a) Tell the Spartans, passer by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
(b) These men gave their lives for freedom.
(c) Here lie great men, who will never be fogotten.
(d) In death, may these men find the peace forbidden to them in life.

5. What does the Oracle tell the Spartans?
(a) They will lose many soldiers, but they will win the fight.
(b) They will either lose a king, or the city will fall.
(c) They will lose a king, and then the city will fall.
(d) They will not lose a single officer, and the city will stand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Alexandros father by the age of twenty?

2. To whom does Rooster become a squire?

3. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?

4. What is the purpose of an all-sire unit?

5. What do the Spartans discover on their way to the tent of Xerxes?

(see the answer key)

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