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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Greeks exult over when they look out to the sea as they wait for battle?
(a) Clear sky
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Blood on the ground
(d) Darkness falling

2. How long ago did Leonidas refuse the offer of the Persian envoy to surrender to them?
(a) Three days
(b) One week
(c) Two years
(d) One year

3. ____________ realizes the Greeks have no hope of surviving the battle before them.
(a) Xerxes
(b) Dilios
(c) Leonidas
(d) Daxos

4. How long ago was the meeting with the ephors and the oracle?
(a) Two months
(b) Two days
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two years

5. Leonidas muses that his distant rival, ___________, has already refused the Persian envoy's demands, so he does too.
(a) Hamburg
(b) Rome
(c) Istanbul
(d) Athens

6. What does the boy of the story with the animal eventually become for the city of Sparta?
(a) Philosopher
(b) Oracle
(c) Slave
(d) King

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

8. Who orders the captain to stop the beating of the man who ended up falling down from the heat?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Dilios
(c) Stelios
(d) Leonidas

9. Leonidas believe his army can beat the Persians with an intelligent selection of ___________.
(a) Terrain
(b) Magic
(c) Weapons
(d) Men

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

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

12. How old is the boy in the story of the wolf that the men like to hear again and again?
(a) 10-years-old
(b) 4-years-old
(c) 20-years-old
(d) 5-years-old

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrived in Sparta that caused the King to make a decision which led to the battle they are marching to?

2. Which soldier succumbs to the heat, growing dizzy and stumbling around?

3. Leonidas thinks that the __________ are decrepit old men who are completely out of touch with the modern world.

4. What does the place where the ephors live emit from the rocks?

5. The messenger asked that Leonidas send a ________ of earth and a jar of water to the King of Persia.

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