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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Leonidas believe the Persian King thinks he is?
(a) God
(b) Too beautiful
(c) Flawless
(d) Too weak
2. What does Ephialtes reveal to Leonidas as a way to circumvent the Hot Gates?
(a) Hidden wooden opening
(b) Goat path
(c) Gunpowder
(d) Tunnel
3. What is the Persian visitor worried about the disappearance of as he enters the camp?
(a) Leonidas
(b) Xerxes
(c) His wife
(d) Earlier scouting unit
4. Xerxes wants to raise an army to smash _________ as well.
(a) Athens
(b) Europe
(c) India
(d) Asia
5. What do the Spartans push at the fine army from Persian, causing them to break their ranks?
(a) Their phalanx
(b) Slippery corpses
(c) A Trojan Horse
(d) Supplies
6. Who refused to abandon Ephialtes' mother, which also helped to save him?
(a) Brother
(b) Father
(c) Sister
(d) Grandmother
7. 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) Alpha Minora
(d) Hoplite phalanx
8. The family of Ephialtes left ____________ and traveled north to get away.
(a) Tuscany
(b) Athens
(c) Rome
(d) Sparta
9. What is the first formation the Greeks fall into when the Persians eventually attack?
(a) Alpha Majora
(b) Hoplite phalanx
(c) Delta
(d) Lambda
10. Who wishes to have an audience with Leonidas after the fighting during the day?
(a) Xerxes
(b) Dilios
(c) Perisan envoy
(d) Ephialtes
11. Who refused to give up Ephialtes, which led to his being saved from death?
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Sister
(d) Uncle
12. Where are the babies left to die when they are seen to have troubles, like those in the answer to #89?
(a) Fields
(b) Sea
(c) Fires
(d) Boats
13. What does the Spartan soldier do to the Persian ambassador in response to his actions?
(a) Gouges out an eye
(b) Beheads him
(c) Cuts off his arm
(d) Lashes him
14. Who is the misshapen and hunchbacked man who approaches the Spartans?
(a) Oracle
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Xerxes
(d) Dilians
15. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.
(a) Phocian
(b) Athenian
(c) Roman
(d) Persian
Short Answer Questions
1. Leonidas declines the offer from Persia, realizing his last stand efforts will make him eternally ____________.
2. What does the second wave of the Persians come to the Spartans on?
3. What is Ephialtes not able to raise to the proper height, as seen in his demonstration of his fighting ability?
4. Where are most of the Persian fighters forced to go when they are faced with the new Greek formation?
5. The narrow trail is near a cliff which falls to the ___________ below.
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