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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Xerxes, what is the greatest desire of Xeones?
(a) His greatest desire is to rejoin his brothers in arms beneath the earth in death.
(b) He only wants to kill Xerxes, even at the cost of his own life.
(c) His top priority is to escape Xerxes and return to Sparta with the intelligence that he has picked up in the Persian camp.
(d) His desire to tell the story is greater than any other.

2. How does Rooster originally feel about Alexandros?
(a) He feels that Alexandros is a good friend who will always be loyal to him.
(b) He feels that Alexandros is far braver than he will ever be.
(c) He loves Alexandros as his own brother, and would allow no harm to come to him.
(d) He feels that he is braver and a better warrior than Alexandros, and he hates him.

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

4. 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.

5. 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) She tells Xerxes that by returning to Persia, he would be missing a grand show in the defeat of the Greeks.
(d) 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.

6. 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) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.
(d) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.

7. What is the last thing that Xerxes says to Xeones as Chapter 19 closes?
(a) "You are either the bravest warrior or the biggest fool to ever walk the earth"
(b) "No one could have breached my tent and survived it, therefore you are lying. I suggest that you be totally honest with me in the future, Greek."
(c) "Why would you tell me such a thing, that I may know of your offense and kill you outright?"
(d) "Please, my friend, continue your tale. Tell it as you wish, in whatever manner the god instructs you."

8. Who does Xeones list off as some of the members of the tent raiding party?
(a) He lists Alexandros, Orontes, Ephesus, and himself.
(b) He lists Alexandros, Polynikes, Rooster, and himself.
(c) He lists Alexandros, Dienekes, Orontes, and himself.
(d) He lists Alexandros, Polynikes, Dienekes, and himself.

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 to live.
(b) He says that all a man wants is wealth.
(c) He says that all a man wants is to die with honor.
(d) He says that all a man wants is a good woman.

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

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

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

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

14. After some of the helots and Thespians leave, about how many are left in the Greek forces?
(a) There are about five hundred men left.
(b) There are about one thousand men left.
(c) There are about sixty men left.
(d) There are about one hundred men left.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?

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

3. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?

4. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?

5. Why does Arete give Xeones coins?

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