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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?
(a) He comes to plunder the riches of Greece.
(b) He comes to conquer the land for natural resources.
(c) He comes to have the Greek submit to him, and to have them offer him earth and water.
(d) He comes to avenge the death of his father.

4. What does the merchant's sign say?
(a) It says "The best service in all of Greece."
(b) It says "The best service only for you, my foreskin."
(c) It says "The best service only for you, my friend."
(d) It says "The best service in all the land."

5. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?
(a) They find the Persians waiting there for them.
(b) They find the Egyptian Tommie.
(c) They find the area abandoned with the exception of a few local people.
(d) They find only half of the troop they were expecting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arete give Xeones coins?

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

3. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?

4. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Xerxes to decide to stay in Greece and complete his campaign?

2. Where has Xeones seen Xerxes before he is brought into his tent?

3. Why do the Spartans decide to send only 300 men?

4. Describe the plan to assault Xerxes in his own tent.

5. Describe the Medes who first entered battle with the Greeks.

6. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

7. Explain what the author means when he calls the 300 an all-sire unit.

8. Describe what the Persians do to the body of the Spartan king, Leonidas.

9. Why do the Persian soldiers not hinder the Greeks in their escape?

10. What occurs at Thermopylae during the wait for the Persians?

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