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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which soldier succumbs to the heat, growing dizzy and stumbling around?
(a) Stelios
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Xerxes
(d) Leonidas

2. Where does Leonidas send the Persian envoy that is sent to collect the surrender?
(a) Back to his country
(b) Well
(c) Back to his ship
(d) Sea

3. What is the important Spartan religious festival that the ephors say cannot be a time of war?
(a) Gretisuis
(b) Easter
(c) Carneia
(d) Saturnalia

4. What do the Greeks exult over when they look out to the sea as they wait for battle?
(a) Clear sky
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Blood on the ground
(d) Darkness falling

5. What is the response of the ephors to the plans of Leonidas when he meets with them?
(a) They do not reply
(b) Yes
(c) No
(d) Maybe

6. After Leonidas leaves the ephors, who emerges from the shadows to speak with the ephors?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Persian infiltrator
(c) Oracle
(d) The Queen

7. Leonidas believe his army can beat the Persians with an intelligent selection of ___________.
(a) Terrain
(b) Weapons
(c) Men
(d) Magic

8. What is the place where the boy leads the animal called?
(a) The Hell's Gate
(b) A concave settlement
(c) A narrow wound
(d) The end of time

9. What does the boy of the story with the animal eventually become for the city of Sparta?
(a) Slave
(b) Oracle
(c) King
(d) Philosopher

10. Leonidas has to talk to the ephors before a wide scale military expedition, according to _________ law.
(a) Greek
(b) Military
(c) Roman
(d) Spartan

11. What does the boy fashion as he is out on his quest?
(a) A cape of red
(b) A kettle
(c) A shield from wood
(d) A light spear

12. What kind of animal is the boy stalked by as he is sitting in the wilderness?
(a) Wolf
(b) Lion
(c) Coyote
(d) Tiger

13. What is the nickname given to the man who has fallen over because of the heat of the day?
(a) Leanoverus
(b) Lazyness
(c) Dumlios
(d) Stumblios

14. What would the earth and the water have shown to the King of Persian had Leonidas sent them?
(a) Subjugation
(b) Partnership
(c) Collaboration
(d) Peace

15. How many warriors is Leonidas going to be joined by on his walk away from his home?
(a) 3000
(b) 30,000
(c) 300
(d) 30

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago was the meeting with the ephors and the oracle?

2. Where do the ephors that Leonidas needs to visit with actually live?

3. The messenger asked that Leonidas send a ________ of earth and a jar of water to the King of Persia.

4. How many years have passed since the story of the boy and the animal has taken place?

5. Who orders the captain to stop the beating of the man who ended up falling down from the heat?

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