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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ realizes the Greeks have no hope of surviving the battle before them.
(a) Daxos
(b) Dilios
(c) Leonidas
(d) Xerxes

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

3. The young boy in the story leaves ______________ in order to travel to the wilderness to prove himself.
(a) Athrurus
(b) Rome
(c) Capitula
(d) Sparta

4. What are the loin straps made out of in the soldiers' uniforms as they march?
(a) Leather
(b) Canvas
(c) Cotton
(d) Leaves

5. How many soldiers are thought to be in the area when the final Greek attachments join Leonidas and Daxos?
(a) 300
(b) 70,000
(c) 7000
(d) 3000

6. Leonidas muses that his distant rival, ___________, has already refused the Persian envoy's demands, so he does too.
(a) Istanbul
(b) Hamburg
(c) Athens
(d) Rome

7. How many years have passed since the story of the boy and the animal has taken place?
(a) 40
(b) 20
(c) 5
(d) 30

8. What caused the destruction of the items from the question #68?
(a) Persian traitors
(b) Oracle
(c) Magic
(d) Violent storm

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

10. Who orders the captain to stop the beating of the man who ended up falling down from the heat?
(a) Stelios
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Dilios
(d) Leonidas

11. What does Leonidas have to donate before he can see the ephors?
(a) His wife
(b) A soldier
(c) Heavy gold coins
(d) Some blood

12. For how many days have the men been marching to arrive at their location?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 2

13. What is the color of the cloaks of the men in the army marching at the beginning of this novel?
(a) Red
(b) Green
(c) Purple
(d) Yellow

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

15. The men at the beginning of this graphic novel are marching from where?
(a) Rome
(b) Naples
(c) Paris
(d) Sparta

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the character who spins the stories for the men as they are at their camps?

2. The men who are marching are armed with short _______ and heavy spears.

3. Before the armies match to Hot Gates, where do they have to pass in their march?

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

5. How many warriors is Leonidas going to be joined by on his walk away from his home?

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