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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. The Queen tells Leonidas he should come back either with his ____________ or on his _____________.
(a) Sword, shield
(b) Shield, shield
(c) Head, back
(d) Shield, sword

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

4. Leonidas thinks that the __________ are decrepit old men who are completely out of touch with the modern world.
(a) Persians
(b) Ephors
(c) Oracles
(d) Soldiers

5. What does the boy return to Sparta wrapped in so as to show his victory?
(a) Cape
(b) Nothing
(c) A robe of leaves
(d) Wolf pelt

6. How many years have passed since the story of the boy and the animal has taken place?
(a) 30
(b) 40
(c) 20
(d) 5

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

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

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

10. After Leonidas leaves the ephors, who emerges from the shadows to speak with the ephors?
(a) Oracle
(b) Persian infiltrator
(c) Ephialtes
(d) The Queen

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

12. How many soldiers are thought to be in the area when the final Greek attachments join Leonidas and Daxos?
(a) 7000
(b) 3000
(c) 70,000
(d) 300

13. What is the important Spartan religious festival that the ephors say cannot be a time of war?
(a) Carneia
(b) Saturnalia
(c) Gretisuis
(d) Easter

14. What does the oracle inhale as she begins to talk with Leonidas about his war plans?
(a) Vapors
(b) Tea
(c) Rocks
(d) Drugs

15. The remainder of the Persian envoy's entourage is then ___________ at Leonidas' orders.
(a) Ignored
(b) Massacred
(c) Injured
(d) Captured

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leonidas objects to the ruling of the ephors, who is he told to see next?

2. What kind of terrain is Leonidas leading his men over as the day continues to be hot and oppressive?

3. What does the king tell the men they will go without because of the incident with the captain and the beating?

4. Where does Leonidas want to meet with the Persian army in an effort to beat them?

5. How long ago was the meeting with the ephors and the oracle?

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