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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the babies left to die when they are seen to have troubles, like those in the answer to #89?
(a) Sea
(b) Fires
(c) Fields
(d) Boats

2. What do the Spartans push at the fine army from Persian, causing them to break their ranks?
(a) A Trojan Horse
(b) Their phalanx
(c) Supplies
(d) Slippery corpses

3. Who allows Ephialtes to speak with him in private about his wishes to be a part of the Spartan army?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Dilios
(c) Daxos
(d) Stelios

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

5. What kind of armor do the Persian soldiers wear, rendering them vulnerable to attack?
(a) Quilted
(b) Bronze
(c) Aluminium
(d) Straw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. The narrow trail is near a cliff which falls to the ___________ below.
(a) Rocks
(b) Sea
(c) Grass
(d) Caves

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Persian ambassador continue to deliver, even as he is hurt badly?

2. Who does Leonidas call by his given name, thus restoring pride to him?

3. Who is assigned as a picket for the night after the Spartans won two decisive victories over the Persians?

4. Which force has been in hiding and is sprung as the second trap against the Persian special army?

5. Who is doing the intense physical training depicted at the start of this chapter?

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