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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy fashion as he is out on his quest?

2. Who suggests the the King should be surrounded by bodyguards on his walk?

3. When Leonidas announces he is going for a walk, in what direction does he say he will travel?

4. The young boy in the story leaves ______________ in order to travel to the wilderness to prove himself.

5. What is the name of the Persian King who asks Leonidas for his surrender?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where are the soldiers in the beginning of this novel marching to and from as they head into battle, it seems?

5. What does the Persian envoy tell Leonidas to send to the Persian king as a sign of subjugation?

6. What kinds of weapons are the soldiers carrying as they march to battle at the start of this novel?

7. Why is Daxos disappointed with Leonidas when he sees him marching toward his own group of troops?

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

9. What happens to Stelios as he marches in the weather at the beginning of the novel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though Leonidas and his army die at the hands of the Persians, all does not seem to be lost.

Part 1: Why does Leonidas go into a battle he knows he will lose?

Part 2: Why doesn't Leonidas' army desert him and run away from the Persian army?

Part 3: Why is the defeat of Leonidas such an inspiring story?

Essay Topic 2

Ephialtes offers up his services in exchange for worldly things - women, land, wealth, etc.

Part 1: Why do you think Ephialtes decided to offer himself to the Persian side of the war?

Part 2: Why do you think the Persian king decided to take Ephialtes up on his offer?

Part 3: Who do you think was manipulating whom in the agreement between Ephialtes and the Persian king? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Leonidas goes through a sort of rite of passage by killing a huge wolf at the beginning of the timeline of this story.

Part 1: Describe the story of Leonidas and the wolf. What happens?

Part 2: What does the wolf symbolize in the story of Leonidas and the wolf?

Part 3: What might have happened had Leonidas never encountered the wolf as described in this story?

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