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

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

3. When the dog chases the rabbit between the two armies and then kills it, what do the Greeks think it means?
(a) They find it amusing and take it as good entertainment.
(b) They take it as a sign that the Persians will overpower them.
(c) They think that the dog crushing the rabbit in its jaws signifies the empire of Persia crushing Greece.
(d) They take it as a sign that they will be victorious.

4. What can Xeones see toward the middle gate?
(a) He sees a large fox.
(b) He sees the bath houses.
(c) He sees the sheer cliffs of the pass.
(d) He sees the Persians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?

2. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?

3. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians to do about the Persian invasion?

4. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?

5. According to Leonidas, how many men could the Persians mass behind the battle wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Leonidas frees the helots on the last day of battle?

2. How is the 300 man force composed?

3. Why do the Persian soldiers not hinder the Greeks in their escape?

4. Where has Xeones seen Xerxes before he is brought into his tent?

5. What factors push the Spartans into a decisive battle with the Persians?

6. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

7. Describe the plan to assault Xerxes in his own tent.

8. Why do the Spartans decide to send only 300 men?

9. What happens when Rooster returns to the Greeks on the second day of battle?

10. What occurs at Thermopylae during the wait for the Persians?

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