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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ephialtes not able to raise to the proper height, as seen in his demonstration of his fighting ability?
(a) Legs
(b) Head
(c) Shield
(d) Sword

2. What do the Persians fire at the Spartans in hopes of breaking them down?
(a) Fireballs
(b) Rocks
(c) Arrows
(d) Pieces of wood

3. The Hot Gates themselves are a narrow ______________ gap at the base of a wall.
(a) Tunnel
(b) Yards wide
(c) Inches wide
(d) Window

4. Who takes the foremost point of the triangle in the new formation the Spartans take against the Persians?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Stelios
(c) Daxos
(d) Ephialtes

5. The Spartans are stacking up a large __________ of Persians even before the main battle begins.
(a) Wave
(b) Prison camp
(c) Body count
(d) Group

6. Spartan infants who show any ____________ are generally left to die.
(a) Displeasure
(b) Deformity
(c) Anger
(d) Intelligence issues

7. What is the Persian visitor worried about the disappearance of as he enters the camp?
(a) Earlier scouting unit
(b) His wife
(c) Leonidas
(d) Xerxes

8. Who refused to give up Ephialtes, which led to his being saved from death?
(a) Uncle
(b) Sister
(c) Mother
(d) Father

9. The family of Ephialtes left ____________ and traveled north to get away.
(a) Rome
(b) Athens
(c) Sparta
(d) Tuscany

10. What was Ephialtes thought to have died from before?
(a) Lack of honor
(b) Broken heart
(c) Poison
(d) Leaping from the cliff

11. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?
(a) Persian army
(b) Shifting soil
(c) The angry gods
(d) Earthquake

12. What does Leonidas order the Spartans to use as their formation when he begins to realize the power of the animals?
(a) Delta
(b) Lambda
(c) Hoplite phalanx
(d) Alpha Minora

13. As a result of his deformity, Ephialtes, Leonidas tells him he can not be a part of the ___________.
(a) Battle
(b) Phalanx
(c) Camp
(d) Country

14. In the end of the battle between the Immortals and the Spartans, who ends up with their army entirely dead?
(a) Immortals
(b) Spartans
(c) No one
(d) Both

15. Who has since died in great shame, which becomes Ephialtes' motivation?
(a) His sister
(b) His mother
(c) His brother
(d) His father

Short Answer Questions

1. When he arrives at the Spartan camp, Ephialtes has his ____________ clothing, armor, and weaponry.

2. What does Ephialtes do when he hears he cannot be a part of the Spartan resistance?

3. Leonidas declines the offer from Persia, realizing his last stand efforts will make him eternally ____________.

4. What kind of armor do the Persian soldiers wear, rendering them vulnerable to attack?

5. Where are the babies left to die when they are seen to have troubles, like those in the answer to #89?

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