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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who responds by hurting the Persian ambassador for trying to lash one of the army members?
(a) Stelios
(b) Daxos
(c) Dilios
(d) Leonidas

2. 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) Persian corpses
(c) Their shields
(d) Persian camels

3. What does Ephialtes reveal to Leonidas as a way to circumvent the Hot Gates?
(a) Tunnel
(b) Gunpowder
(c) Hidden wooden opening
(d) Goat path

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

5. Ephialtes reveals that his father taught him to fight like a _____________.
(a) God
(b) Spartan
(c) Persian
(d) Monster

6. What does Leonidas believe the Persian King thinks he is?
(a) God
(b) Too weak
(c) Too beautiful
(d) Flawless

7. As a result of his deformity, Ephialtes, Leonidas tells him he can not be a part of the ___________.
(a) Battle
(b) Country
(c) Phalanx
(d) Camp

8. The Persian visitor offers to make Leonidas the _________________ of all Greece.
(a) King
(b) Owner
(c) Dictator
(d) Absolute warlord

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

10. When he arrives at the Spartan camp, Ephialtes has his ____________ clothing, armor, and weaponry.
(a) Brother's
(b) Grandfather's
(c) Uncle's
(d) Father's

11. What is Ephialtes not able to raise to the proper height, as seen in his demonstration of his fighting ability?
(a) Sword
(b) Shield
(c) Head
(d) Legs

12. The family of Ephialtes left ____________ and traveled north to get away.
(a) Rome
(b) Sparta
(c) Athens
(d) Tuscany

13. What do the men think of the answer to #106? What do the soldiers believe is happening?
(a) Persians are coming
(b) Oracle is warning them
(c) Earthquake
(d) Apocalypse

14. In the end of the battle between the Immortals and the Spartans, who ends up with their army entirely dead?
(a) Immortals
(b) Spartans
(c) No one
(d) Both

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?

2. What happens when the army begins to leave in order to protect the secret path, as revealed by Ephialtes?

3. What kinds of shields do the Persian army carry, which are also not very effective against the Greeks?

4. Who is watching from a distance and is becoming nervous that the Spartans might actually win?

5. What do the Persian army men wear on their heads as a part of their military uniforms?

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