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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The oracle announces that Sparta will ________________.
(a) Retreat
(b) Be destroyed
(c) Be famous in its flames
(d) Be victorious

2. What does the oracle insist must be observed as Leonidas goes to battle the Persians?
(a) All must be killed
(b) Peacetime doctrine
(c) Carneia
(d) War rules

3. Which soldier succumbs to the heat, growing dizzy and stumbling around?
(a) Xerxes
(b) Stelios
(c) Leonidas
(d) Ephialtes

4. What Greek formation requires that the soldiers hold their bodies in a certain formation?
(a) Delta
(b) Hoplite phalanx
(c) Lambda Sigma
(d) Alpha phalanx

5. What does Ephialtes reveal to Leonidas as a way to circumvent the Hot Gates?
(a) Goat path
(b) Hidden wooden opening
(c) Gunpowder
(d) Tunnel

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leonidas order the Spartans to use as their formation when he begins to realize the power of the animals?

2. A Persian ____________ travels toward the Greek camp in order to speak with Leonidas

3. Where are the Spartan defensive tactics centering on at the start of this chapter?

4. The Persian visitor offers to make Leonidas the _________________ of all Greece.

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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