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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 does the boy fashion as he is out on his quest?
(a) A shield from wood
(b) A light spear
(c) A cape of red
(d) A kettle

2. The pride of Xerxes causes him to want immediate ______________ from his personal bodyguard troops.
(a) Surrender
(b) Deaths
(c) Results
(d) Complicity

3. What do the Persians fire at the Spartans in hopes of breaking them down?
(a) Rocks
(b) Arrows
(c) Fireballs
(d) Pieces of wood

4. What is the place where the boy leads the animal called?
(a) A narrow wound
(b) The Hell's Gate
(c) The end of time
(d) A concave settlement

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The men are wearing heavy __________ helmets as they are marching to meet their enemy.

2. Where does Leonidas send the Persian envoy that is sent to collect the surrender?

3. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.

4. How old is the boy in the story of the wolf that the men like to hear again and again?

5. What would the earth and the water have shown to the King of Persian had Leonidas sent them?

(see the answer key)

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