2. What does the king tell the men they will go without because of the incident with the captain and the beating?
(a) Clothing for the night
(b) Weapons for the battle
(c) Water for the day
(d) Food for the day

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

4. How many soldiers are rumored to be in the Persian army that Leonidas is planning on fighting?
(a) Hundreds
(b) Thousands
(c) Very few
(d) Millions

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

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

7. What arrived in Sparta that caused the King to make a decision which led to the battle they are marching to?
(a) A severed head
(b) Persian envoy
(c) His Queen
(d) A note from China

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

9. What would the earth and the water have shown to the King of Persian had Leonidas sent them?
(a) Collaboration
(b) Subjugation
(c) Partnership
(d) Peace

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

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

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

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

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

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