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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Xerxes orders his personal bodyguard, _______________, into combat.
(a) The Jewels
(b) The elephants
(c) The Skulls
(d) The Immortals

3. Ephialtes is still angered by Leonidas' absolute ________________.
(a) Pride
(b) Rejection
(c) Confidence
(d) Arrogance

4. What is the Persian visitor traveling on as they enter into the Greek camp?
(a) Palanquin
(b) Chariot
(c) Oliphant
(d) Wagon

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

6. What do the men think of the answer to #106? What do the soldiers believe is happening?
(a) Oracle is warning them
(b) Persians are coming
(c) Earthquake
(d) Apocalypse

7. What do the Spartans pile into a slippery and unstable wall at the end of their victory over the second wave of Persians?
(a) Persian camels
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Their shields
(d) Their helmets

8. What happens when the army begins to leave in order to protect the secret path, as revealed by Ephialtes?
(a) They all fall down
(b) Lightning streaks across the sky
(c) The ground shakes
(d) The thunder rumbles

9. What does Leonidas see as a major flaw in the Persian king?
(a) Greed
(b) Cheating
(c) Pride
(d) Gluttony

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

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

12. The pride of Xerxes causes him to want immediate ______________ from his personal bodyguard troops.
(a) Surrender
(b) Complicity
(c) Results
(d) Deaths

13. Leonidas declines the offer from Persia, realizing his last stand efforts will make him eternally ____________.
(a) Famous
(b) Revered
(c) Fabled
(d) Powerful

14. What does Ephialtes reveal to Leonidas as a way to circumvent the Hot Gates?
(a) Gunpowder
(b) Hidden wooden opening
(c) Goat path
(d) Tunnel

15. Who is assigned as a picket for the night after the Spartans won two decisive victories over the Persians?
(a) Stelios
(b) Daxos
(c) Dilios
(d) Leonidas

Short Answer Questions

1. Dilios spins a tale of Spartan ____________ as the Persian visitor begins to speak to the camp.

2. What kinds of shields do the Persian army carry, which are also not very effective against the Greeks?

3. The overlapping shields of the Spartan soldiers create a solid wall of ___________.

4. What Greek formation requires that the soldiers hold their bodies in a certain formation?

5. In the end of the battle between the Immortals and the Spartans, who ends up with their army entirely dead?

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