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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Combat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the armies match to Hot Gates, where do they have to pass in their march?
(a) Hell's Gate
(b) Hell's Hair
(c) Brimstone
(d) Hell's Mouth

2. Who does Leonidas call by his given name, thus restoring pride to him?
(a) Daxos
(b) Stelios
(c) Dilios
(d) Ephialtes

3. Who is assigned as a picket for the night after the Spartans won two decisive victories over the Persians?
(a) Daxos
(b) Stelios
(c) Dilios
(d) Leonidas

4. Who are standing on the backs of the soldiers as they do the intense push-ups?
(a) No one
(b) Officers
(c) Persian captives
(d) Women

5. Who is the character who spins the stories for the men as they are at their camps?
(a) Dilios
(b) Leonidas
(c) Stelios
(d) Ephialtes

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonidas objects to the ruling of the ephors, who is he told to see next?

2. The oracle also states that no Spartan army will ____________.

3. What does Leonidas ask of the soldiers in the Arcadian Greek army in order to refute others who criticize his army?

4. The young boy in the story leaves ______________ in order to travel to the wilderness to prove himself.

5. The Spartans are stacking up a large __________ of Persians even before the main battle begins.

(see the answer key)

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