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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. The men in the army are being led by a man who is playing the __________.
(a) Guitar
(b) Horn
(c) Pipes
(d) Drums

4. For how many days have the men been marching to arrive at their location?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 1
(d) 3

5. The men are also carrying large circular __________ as they march to meet their enemy.
(a) Spears
(b) Flags
(c) Swords
(d) Shields

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

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

8. Who expresses dismay over how few soldiers Leonidas has brought to the battleground?
(a) Xerxes
(b) Stelios
(c) Dilios
(d) Daxos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the soldiers see driven to the shore? Elements of the ______________.

3. What does the person to speak with the ephors offer to them for their treason?

4. The Queen tells Leonidas he should come back either with his ____________ or on his _____________.

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

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