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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Shifting soil
(c) The angry gods
(d) Persian army

3. Who does the Persian ambassador attempt to lash as he becomes more and more frustrated?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Dilios
(c) Ephialtes
(d) Stelios

4. Where were the forces of Daxos hiding from the Persian army?
(a) On top of the cliff
(b) In the ground
(c) Among the crags
(d) Under the cliff

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

6. Who refused to give up Ephialtes, which led to his being saved from death?
(a) Mother
(b) Sister
(c) Uncle
(d) Father

7. A Persian ____________ travels toward the Greek camp in order to speak with Leonidas
(a) Priest
(b) Scribe
(c) Soldier
(d) Ambassador

8. What kinds of shields do the Persian army carry, which are also not very effective against the Greeks?
(a) Palm
(b) Wicker
(c) Cloth
(d) Straw

9. Where are most of the Persian fighters forced to go when they are faced with the new Greek formation?
(a) Into the Greek spears
(b) Field
(c) Into each other
(d) Sea

10. Spartan infants who show any ____________ are generally left to die.
(a) Anger
(b) Displeasure
(c) Intelligence issues
(d) Deformity

11. Spartan soldiers swim and dive from a massive wall made of ____________ and Persian corpses.
(a) Supplies
(b) Boulders
(c) Shields
(d) Weapons

12. 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 shields
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Their helmets
(d) Persian camels

13. What does Leonidas see as a major flaw in the Persian king?
(a) Gluttony
(b) Pride
(c) Cheating
(d) Greed

14. What does Ephialtes do when he hears he cannot be a part of the Spartan resistance?
(a) Flings himself over the precipice
(b) Kills Leonidas
(c) Argues with Leonidas
(d) Cries

15. The pride of Xerxes causes him to want immediate ______________ from his personal bodyguard troops.
(a) Complicity
(b) Results
(c) Deaths
(d) Surrender

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Greek formation in #101, what must interlock in order to provide cover to the soldiers?

3. Xerxes orders his personal bodyguard, _______________, into combat.

4. What is the Persian visitor traveling on as they enter into the Greek camp?

5. Which force has been in hiding and is sprung as the second trap against the Persian special army?

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