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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Xerxes orders his personal bodyguard, _______________, into combat.
(a) The Skulls
(b) The elephants
(c) The Jewels
(d) The Immortals

2. Where does Leonidas want to meet with the Persian army in an effort to beat them?
(a) Goat pass
(b) Brimstone
(c) Holy Houses
(d) Hot Gates

3. What do the Spartans push at the fine army from Persian, causing them to break their ranks?
(a) Slippery corpses
(b) A Trojan Horse
(c) Supplies
(d) Their phalanx

4. Who is the misshapen and hunchbacked man who approaches the Spartans?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Xerxes
(c) Dilians
(d) Oracle

5. What kind of pushups are the soldiers in this chapter doing?
(a) One-armed
(b) Elbow
(c) Bent leg
(d) Army precisional

Short Answer Questions

1. In the end of the battle between the Immortals and the Spartans, who ends up with their army entirely dead?

2. What do the Spartans pile into a slippery and unstable wall at the end of their victory over the second wave of Persians?

3. Who is pierced by dozens of arrows and dies amongst his men?

4. Leonidas thinks that the __________ are decrepit old men who are completely out of touch with the modern world.

5. What does the oracle insist must be observed as Leonidas goes to battle the Persians?

(see the answer key)

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