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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Leonidas say needs to flee with the rest of the retreating Greeks in the army?
(a) Daxos
(b) Relias
(c) Dilios
(d) Stelios

2. Ephialtes compares the attack of the Thespians to the attack of the _____________ that occurred earlier.
(a) Athenians
(b) Romans
(c) Arcadians
(d) Phocians

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

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

5. Who takes the foremost point of the triangle in the new formation the Spartans take against the Persians?
(a) Stelios
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Leonidas
(d) Daxos

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Dilios begins to tell the men about the battle of __________ where another vast Persian army was slaughtered by Greeks.

4. What do the Spartans pile into a slippery and unstable wall at the end of their victory over the second wave of Persians?

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

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