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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The family of Ephialtes left ____________ and traveled north to get away.
(a) Athens
(b) Sparta
(c) Rome
(d) Tuscany
2. What does the Persian ambassador continue to deliver, even as he is hurt badly?
(a) Peace agreement
(b) Ultimatum
(c) A prayer for the souls of the Spartans
(d) Demands from Xerxes
3. What do the Spartans pile into a slippery and unstable wall at the end of their victory over the second wave of Persians?
(a) Their shields
(b) Persian corpses
(c) Their helmets
(d) Persian camels
4. What kinds of shields do the Persian army carry, which are also not very effective against the Greeks?
(a) Straw
(b) Cloth
(c) Palm
(d) Wicker
5. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?
(a) Persian army
(b) Shifting soil
(c) Earthquake
(d) The angry gods
6. What do the men think of the answer to #106? What do the soldiers believe is happening?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Apocalypse
(c) Persians are coming
(d) Oracle is warning them
7. Xerxes orders his personal bodyguard, _______________, into combat.
(a) The Jewels
(b) The Immortals
(c) The elephants
(d) The Skulls
8. What was Ephialtes thought to have died from before?
(a) Lack of honor
(b) Leaping from the cliff
(c) Broken heart
(d) Poison
9. Where were the forces of Daxos hiding from the Persian army?
(a) On top of the cliff
(b) Among the crags
(c) Under the cliff
(d) In the ground
10. 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) The ground shakes
(c) The thunder rumbles
(d) Lightning streaks across the sky
11. Who takes the foremost point of the triangle in the new formation the Spartans take against the Persians?
(a) Stelios
(b) Ephialtes
(c) Leonidas
(d) Daxos
12. In the Greek formation in #101, what must interlock in order to provide cover to the soldiers?
(a) Swords
(b) Legs
(c) Shields
(d) Helmets
13. The Hot Gates are a part of a massive cliff ______________ that blocks the path for many miles.
(a) Mountain
(b) Edge
(c) Building
(d) Wall
14. What happens when the Persian visitor first enters the camp of the Greeks?
(a) He is lauded
(b) He is killed
(c) He is taken prisoner
(d) He is ignored
15. What is the Persian visitor worried about the disappearance of as he enters the camp?
(a) His wife
(b) Xerxes
(c) Leonidas
(d) Earlier scouting unit
Short Answer Questions
1. Who are standing on the backs of the soldiers as they do the intense push-ups?
2. Who is the misshapen and hunchbacked man who approaches the Spartans?
3. Who wishes to have an audience with Leonidas after the fighting during the day?
4. The overlapping shields of the Spartan soldiers create a solid wall of ___________.
5. What is the first formation the Greeks fall into when the Persians eventually attack?
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