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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is doing the intense physical training depicted at the start of this chapter?
(a) Young boys
(b) Persians
(c) Leonidas
(d) Spartans

2. Xerxes wants to raise an army to smash _________ as well.
(a) Athens
(b) India
(c) Asia
(d) Europe

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

4. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.
(a) Athenian
(b) Persian
(c) Phocian
(d) Roman

5. Ephialtes reveals that his father taught him to fight like a _____________.
(a) Spartan
(b) God
(c) Persian
(d) Monster

6. Who does the Persian ambassador attempt to lash as he becomes more and more frustrated?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Leonidas
(c) Stelios
(d) Dilios

7. What does the Spartan soldier do to the Persian ambassador in response to his actions?
(a) Beheads him
(b) Lashes him
(c) Cuts off his arm
(d) Gouges out an eye

8. What is the second wave of Persian soldiers surrounded by as they come to attack the Spartans?
(a) Slingshots
(b) Light foot infantry
(c) Trebuchets
(d) Magicians

9. Who wishes to have an audience with Leonidas after the fighting during the day?
(a) Xerxes
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Dilios
(d) Perisan envoy

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

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

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

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

14. Spartan soldiers swim and dive from a massive wall made of ____________ and Persian corpses.
(a) Weapons
(b) Boulders
(c) Shields
(d) Supplies

15. Which force has been in hiding and is sprung as the second trap against the Persian special army?
(a) Anatolian
(b) Arcadian
(c) Athenian
(d) Roman

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrow trail is near a cliff which falls to the ___________ below.

3. What do the Spartans push at the fine army from Persian, causing them to break their ranks?

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

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

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