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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The boy is expected to ____________ for a period of time without supplies or equipment.
(a) Survive
(b) Meditate
(c) Fast
(d) Fight

3. What does the oracle insist must be observed as Leonidas goes to battle the Persians?
(a) All must be killed
(b) War rules
(c) Peacetime doctrine
(d) Carneia

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

5. When Leonidas announces he is going for a walk, in what direction does he say he will travel?
(a) East
(b) West
(c) South
(d) North

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy of the story with the animal eventually become for the city of Sparta?

2. After Leonidas leaves the ephors, who emerges from the shadows to speak with the ephors?

3. How many soldiers are rumored to be in the Persian army that Leonidas is planning on fighting?

4. Why does the storyteller tell the rest of the men stories as they sit around at camp?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the path of the combined forces of Leonidas and the others who meet up with him?

2. Describe the weather conditions for the soldiers as they have marched during the beginning of this story.

3. Why does Dilios tell stories to the soldiers as they are preparing for battle?

4. What is one of the reasons why Leonidas refuses to send the sign of subjugation to the Persian king?

5. What do the soldiers in the beginning of the novel wear as they match to battle?

6. What is the object of the march of the soldiers in the beginning of this manuscript?

7. For how long have the soldiers at the start of this novel been marching?

8. Why do the ephors object to the plans of Leonidas when he comes to visit them?

9. What does Leonidas have to do prior to beginning a full scale military expedition, according to Spartan law?

10. What does Leonidas suggest to the ephors that the Spartan army does when they fight the Persians?

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