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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Duty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads the force of Arcadian Greeks that Leonidas encounters on his way to battle?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Stelios
(c) Daxos
(d) Xerxes

2. Where does Leonidas want to meet with the Persian army in an effort to beat them?
(a) Goat pass
(b) Holy Houses
(c) Hot Gates
(d) Brimstone

3. Leonidas muses that his distant rival, ___________, has already refused the Persian envoy's demands, so he does too.
(a) Hamburg
(b) Athens
(c) Istanbul
(d) Rome

4. What kind of animal is the boy stalked by as he is sitting in the wilderness?
(a) Lion
(b) Coyote
(c) Wolf
(d) Tiger

5. What is the important Spartan religious festival that the ephors say cannot be a time of war?
(a) Easter
(b) Carneia
(c) Saturnalia
(d) Gretisuis

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers see driven to the shore? Elements of the ______________.

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

3. Who expresses dismay over how few soldiers Leonidas has brought to the battleground?

4. The object of the march of the men is glory and _________ as they march to meet their enemies.

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

(see the answer key)

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