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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When he arrives at the Spartan camp, Ephialtes has his ____________ clothing, armor, and weaponry.
(a) Grandfather's
(b) Brother's
(c) Father's
(d) Uncle's

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

5. Who responds by hurting the Persian ambassador for trying to lash one of the army members?
(a) Dilios
(b) Stelios
(c) Daxos
(d) Leonidas

6. Who does the Persian visitor see butchered and impaled as he enters the camp?
(a) Scouts
(b) Xerxes
(c) Animals
(d) Leonidas

7. Who are standing on the backs of the soldiers as they do the intense push-ups?
(a) Officers
(b) Women
(c) No one
(d) Persian captives

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

9. The Spartans only need to defend a narrow strip of ______________ against the Persian attack when they are at the Hot Gates.
(a) Land
(b) Water
(c) Grass
(d) Rock

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

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

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

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

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

15. Dilios spins a tale of Spartan ____________ as the Persian visitor begins to speak to the camp.
(a) Bloodthirst
(b) Bravery
(c) Politeness
(d) Stubbornness

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?

3. Who refused to abandon Ephialtes' mother, which also helped to save him?

4. Who staggers into the Spartan camp, which surprises everyone who sees him?

5. What do the men think of the answer to #106? What do the soldiers believe is happening?

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