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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Combat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the soldiers see driven to the shore? Elements of the ______________.
(a) Ephors
(b) Athenian princes
(c) Persian fleet
(d) Oracle

2. Who responds by hurting the Persian ambassador for trying to lash one of the army members?
(a) Daxos
(b) Dilios
(c) Stelios
(d) Leonidas

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

4. Leonidas declines the offer from Persia, realizing his last stand efforts will make him eternally ____________.
(a) Fabled
(b) Powerful
(c) Famous
(d) Revered

5. Why does the storyteller tell the rest of the men stories as they sit around at camp?
(a) To humor them
(b) To educate them
(c) To inspire them
(d) To warn them

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the oracle insist must be observed as Leonidas goes to battle the Persians?

2. Ephialtes is still angered by Leonidas' absolute ________________.

3. The narrow trail is near a cliff which falls to the ___________ below.

4. Leonidas thinks that the __________ are decrepit old men who are completely out of touch with the modern world.

5. What is the important Spartan religious festival that the ephors say cannot be a time of war?

(see the answer key)

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