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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the loin straps made out of in the soldiers' uniforms as they march?
(a) Leather
(b) Cotton
(c) Leaves
(d) Canvas

3. Who is the man to which all the commanders of other armies give their power to?
(a) Dilios
(b) Daxos
(c) Xerxes
(d) Leonidas

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. What does the place where the ephors live emit from the rocks?
(a) Black tar
(b) Poisonous waters
(c) Fumes
(d) Blood

6. The messenger asked that Leonidas send a ________ of earth and a jar of water to the King of Persia.
(a) Bucket
(b) Cask
(c) Tureen
(d) Jar

7. Before the armies match to Hot Gates, where do they have to pass in their march?
(a) Hell's Mouth
(b) Hell's Hair
(c) Hell's Gate
(d) Brimstone

8. When Leonidas announces he is going for a walk, in what direction does he say he will travel?
(a) North
(b) West
(c) South
(d) East

9. What is the name of the Persian King who asks Leonidas for his surrender?
(a) Xerxes
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Truscius
(d) Envoy

10. Where does Leonidas send the Persian envoy that is sent to collect the surrender?
(a) Back to his country
(b) Sea
(c) Well
(d) Back to his ship

11. What does the boy lead the stalking animal into that proves to be the demise of the animal?
(a) Sea
(b) Narrow fissure in the cliff
(c) Goat's pass
(d) Cave

12. Who is the character who spins the stories for the men as they are at their camps?
(a) Stelios
(b) Leonidas
(c) Ephialtes
(d) Dilios

13. The men at the beginning of this graphic novel are marching from where?
(a) Paris
(b) Sparta
(c) Naples
(d) Rome

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

15. What is the nickname given to the man who has fallen over because of the heat of the day?
(a) Dumlios
(b) Stumblios
(c) Leanoverus
(d) Lazyness

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the ephors that Leonidas needs to visit with actually live?

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

3. The remainder of the Persian envoy's entourage is then ___________ at Leonidas' orders.

4. What do the Greeks exult over when they look out to the sea as they wait for battle?

5. The men who are marching are armed with short _______ and heavy spears.

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