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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the place where the ephors live emit from the rocks?
(a) Black tar
(b) Blood
(c) Poisonous waters
(d) Fumes

2. What is the first formation the Greeks fall into when the Persians eventually attack?
(a) Alpha Majora
(b) Delta
(c) Lambda
(d) Hoplite phalanx

3. What do the Spartans pile into a slippery and unstable wall at the end of their victory over the second wave of Persians?
(a) Their helmets
(b) Their shields
(c) Persian corpses
(d) Persian camels

4. When Leonidas objects to the ruling of the ephors, who is he told to see next?
(a) Medusa
(b) Morpheus
(c) Sirens
(d) Oracle

5. The oracle announces that Sparta will ________________.
(a) Retreat
(b) Be famous in its flames
(c) Be destroyed
(d) Be victorious

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers are rumored to be in the Persian army that Leonidas is planning on fighting?

2. Who suggests the the King should be surrounded by bodyguards on his walk?

3. ____________ realizes the Greeks have no hope of surviving the battle before them.

4. Why does the storyteller tell the rest of the men stories as they sit around at camp?

5. The Persian visitor offers to make Leonidas the _________________ of all Greece.

(see the answer key)

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