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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Medon take the baby after the Peers all go home?
(a) He wants to have a look at the child.
(b) He is inspecting the child to see if he will be allowed to live.
(c) He is stealing the child so that he can kill him.
(d) He is taking the child to protect him from the others.

3. How many children does Alexandros father by the age of twenty?
(a) He has twin sons.
(b) He has a son and a daughter who are twins.
(c) He has three daughters.
(d) He has twin sons and then a daughter.

4. Who do the Spartans encounter on their way out of the Persian camp?
(a) They are seen by General Mardonius.
(b) They come across Persian soldiers rising for the morning.
(c) They run into another group of Egyptian marines.
(d) They do not encounter anyone on their flight from the Persian camp.

5. When the dog chases the rabbit between the two armies and then kills it, what do the Greeks think it means?
(a) They take it as a sign that they will be victorious.
(b) They think that the dog crushing the rabbit in its jaws signifies the empire of Persia crushing Greece.
(c) They find it amusing and take it as good entertainment.
(d) They take it as a sign that the Persians will overpower them.

6. What does Dienekes order Xeones to do?
(a) He orders Xeones to stay back and observe, so that he may tell the story later.
(b) He orders Xeones to run.
(c) He orders Xeones to fight valiantly.
(d) He orders Xeones to deliver a message for him.

7. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?
(a) Ares appears to her.
(b) Zeus appears to her.
(c) Apollo appears to her.
(d) Persephone appears to her.

8. What happens to the raiding party?
(a) Alexandros' hand is cut off, and a few others are killed, so Dienekes calls the retreat.
(b) They fight against terrible odds, but manage to kill Xerxes before being killed to a man.
(c) They are captured.
(d) They fight to the death.

9. In Chapter 29, what does Xeones say is the only thing a man really wants?
(a) He says that all a man wants is a good woman.
(b) He says that all a man wants is to die with honor.
(c) He says that all a man wants is to live.
(d) He says that all a man wants is wealth.

10. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?
(a) 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.
(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) The Persians have no hope of taking Greece without their king.
(d) She tells Xerxes that by returning to Persia, he would be missing a grand show in the defeat of the Greeks.

11. What happens to the raiding party that saves the life of Xerxes?
(a) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(b) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.
(c) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.
(d) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.

12. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?
(a) The opposite of fear is glory.
(b) The opposite of fear is love.
(c) The opposite of fear is courage.
(d) The opposite of fear is aphobia.

13. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?
(a) They ignore it and continue with the mission.
(b) They abandon their mission.
(c) They send Telamonias back to report to Leonidas.
(d) They split into two teams, and pursue both the mission and the new discovery.

14. Why do the Spartans decide to send only three hundred soldiers to Thermopylae?
(a) The three hundred is only the advance force meant to hold off the Persians long enough for the main force to arrive.
(b) The Spartans do not feel that the Persians are a real threat to them, so three hundred should more than suffice.
(c) A larger force would not have room to fight, and would cause supply problems.
(d) The Spartan senate refuses to send troops to Thermopylae, and the three hundred are the only volunteers.

15. What is mothax?
(a) It is the highest title of honor for Spartans.
(b) It is the grade of warrior youths somewhere between full citizen and helot.
(c) It is freedom from taxes.
(d) It is a golden metal awarded for valor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Knowing that everyone will die the next day, what does Leonidas tell his men?

2. What drives Polynikes according to Dienekes?

3. Who authorizes the raid on Xerxes' tent?

4. When king Leonidas gives his speech on the night of the arrival of the Persian force, to whom is he speaking?

5. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?

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