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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. Leonidas has to talk to the ephors before a wide scale military expedition, according to _________ law.
(a) Spartan
(b) Greek
(c) Roman
(d) Military

4. The boy is expected to ____________ for a period of time without supplies or equipment.
(a) Meditate
(b) Survive
(c) Fast
(d) Fight

5. The oracle also states that no Spartan army will ____________.
(a) Grow
(b) Remain
(c) Leave
(d) March

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

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

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

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

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

11. How many warriors is Leonidas going to be joined by on his walk away from his home?
(a) 3000
(b) 30,000
(c) 30
(d) 300

12. What caused the destruction of the items from the question #68?
(a) Violent storm
(b) Magic
(c) Oracle
(d) Persian traitors

13. The ___________ King is in command of all of the soldiers who have finally arrived at the Hot Gates.
(a) Persian
(b) Roman
(c) Greek
(d) Spartan

14. Why does the storyteller tell the rest of the men stories as they sit around at camp?
(a) To humor them
(b) To educate them
(c) To warn them
(d) To inspire them

15. Which soldier succumbs to the heat, growing dizzy and stumbling around?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Stelios
(c) Ephialtes
(d) Xerxes

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the loin straps made out of in the soldiers' uniforms as they march?

2. What begins to turn into a violent storm the closer they move toward the Hot Gates?

3. The men are also carrying large circular __________ as they march to meet their enemy.

4. Who is the character who spins the stories for the men as they are at their camps?

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

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