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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?
(a) He comes to avenge the death of his father.
(b) He comes to have the Greek submit to him, and to have them offer him earth and water.
(c) He comes to conquer the land for natural resources.
(d) He comes to plunder the riches of Greece.

2. What does Leonidas say is the tell-all when battle comes?
(a) He says that devotion to the gods will tell all.
(b) He says that courage will tell all.
(c) He says that practice of arms will tell all.
(d) He says that physical strength will tell all.

3. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?
(a) The opposite of fear is glory.
(b) The opposite of fear is love.
(c) The opposite of fear is courage.
(d) The opposite of fear is aphobia.

4. What do the Spartans discover on their way to the tent of Xerxes?
(a) They find out that Xerxes has found a path around the gates, and that he has ordered troops to surround the Greeks.
(b) They find out that Rooster is leading them into a trap.
(c) They discover a much better patch of ground on which to fight the Persians.
(d) They find out that Xerxes has caught wind of their plan, and has moved his tent.

5. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?
(a) The enemy will overrun and destroy you.
(b) The wooden wall alone shall not fail you.
(c) Fly to the corners of the earth.
(d) Only with the Spartans may you defeat the enemy.

6. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?
(a) They are in the hills outside of Thessaly.
(b) They are a few miles outside of Sparta.
(c) They are just leaving Thermopylae.
(d) They are at the Three-Cornered Way in Attika.

7. Why is Xerxes having trouble sleeping?
(a) He cannot sleep after the slaughter of battle.
(b) He is being plagued by nightmares and guilt over the desecration of Leonidas' body.
(c) He has contracted a terrible illness from one of the injured soldiers.
(d) He has dysentery.

8. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
(a) There are only three hundred.
(b) There are several thousand.
(c) There are fifty thousand men.
(d) There are twenty thousand.

9. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?
(a) They send Telamonias back to report to Leonidas.
(b) They ignore it and continue with the mission.
(c) They split into two teams, and pursue both the mission and the new discovery.
(d) They abandon their mission.

10. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?
(a) You are traitors. May the gods curse you all.
(b) It is better to die free than live a slave.
(c) If under compulsion you must fight us your brothers, fight badly.
(d) You have no choice. You are forgiven.

11. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians to do about the Persian invasion?
(a) The Oracle tells them to bargain with Persia.
(b) The Oracle tells them to stand and fight for their freedom.
(c) The Oracle tells them to fly to the ends of the earth.
(d) The Oracle tells them to remain neutral.

12. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?
(a) Leonidas and Karneius are the only father-son pair.
(b) Olympieus and Alexandros are the only father-son pair.
(c) Dienekes and Rooster are the only father-son pair.
(d) Medan and Xeones are the only father-son pair.

13. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?
(a) He sees Xerxes in the Persian court while traveling as a child.
(b) He sees Xerxes in battle.
(c) He is a member of the raiding party that attempts to kill Xerxes in his tent.
(d) He sees Xerxes in a dream of prophesy.

14. What drives Polynikes according to Dienekes?
(a) Polynikes is driven by the greed for glory.
(b) Polynikes is driven the fear of dishonor.
(c) Polynikes has true andreia.
(d) Polynikes is driven by his bloodlust.

15. What two groups fight the first encounter?
(a) The Thespians fight the Medes.
(b) The Spartans fight the Egyptians.
(c) The Spartans fight the Persians.
(d) The Thespians fight the Armenians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Phokians miss the meeting?

2. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?

3. What is the standing order of Dienekes while on campaign?

4. In Chapter 29, what does Xeones say is the only thing a man really wants?

5. Why does Leonidas include inexperienced soldiers in the three hundred?

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