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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Xeones see toward the middle gate?
(a) He sees the bath houses.
(b) He sees the sheer cliffs of the pass.
(c) He sees the Persians.
(d) He sees a large fox.

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

3. How do the Persian forces surround the Greeks?
(a) They sneak around the Greeks during the night.
(b) They go around the mountain.
(c) They sail around and march up from behind.
(d) They are told of a moutain pass by a Greek traitor.

4. What does Leonidas say is the tell-all when battle comes?
(a) He says that physical strength will tell all.
(b) He says that practice of arms will tell all.
(c) He says that devotion to the gods will tell all.
(d) He says that courage will tell all.

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

6. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?
(a) He sees Xerxes in battle.
(b) He sees Xerxes in the Persian court while traveling as a child.
(c) He is a member of the raiding party that attempts to kill Xerxes in his tent.
(d) He sees Xerxes in a dream of prophesy.

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

8. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?
(a) He is fighting on the field of battle.
(b) He is writing in his journal.
(c) He is sleeping.
(d) He is sharpening his sword blade.

9. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?
(a) It is better to die free than live a slave.
(b) You have no choice. You are forgiven.
(c) You are traitors. May the gods curse you all.
(d) If under compulsion you must fight us your brothers, fight badly.

10. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?
(a) He is beaten with wooden rods.
(b) He is absolved of his crime.
(c) He is slain by the krypteia.
(d) He is exiled and sent to the Persians.

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

12. Other than Ball Player and the dog, who is the other volunteer?
(a) He is a merchant from Miletus, and his name is Elephantinos.
(b) The other volunteer is Olaph, the wandering Arab.
(c) Tommie the Egyptian joined the Greeks.
(d) The other volunteer is Minoas, a traitor from the Persian army.

13. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?
(a) The Persians have no hope of taking Greece without their king.
(b) She tells him that if he leaves after the Oracle spoke to the Spartans, that all of Greece would say that he was running from a dream.
(c) If Xerxes leaves his army in the hands of a general, the general might return victorious from Greece only to take over the empire for himself.
(d) She tells Xerxes that by returning to Persia, he would be missing a grand show in the defeat of the Greeks.

14. What two groups fight the first encounter?
(a) The Spartans fight the Persians.
(b) The Spartans fight the Egyptians.
(c) The Thespians fight the Medes.
(d) The Thespians fight the Armenians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians to do about the Persian invasion?

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

3. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?

4. What does Rooster suggest to Xeones and Alexandros?

5. When does Darius of Persia die?

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