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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Xerxes wants to raise an army to smash _________ as well.
(a) India
(b) Asia
(c) Europe
(d) Athens

6. Who refused to abandon Ephialtes' mother, which also helped to save him?
(a) Brother
(b) Grandmother
(c) Sister
(d) Father

7. 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

8. What does Ephialtes do when he hears he cannot be a part of the Spartan resistance?
(a) Kills Leonidas
(b) Cries
(c) Flings himself over the precipice
(d) Argues with Leonidas

9. What does Leonidas believe the Persian King thinks he is?
(a) Too weak
(b) Flawless
(c) Too beautiful
(d) God

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When he arrives at the Spartan camp, Ephialtes has his ____________ clothing, armor, and weaponry.

4. What is the second wave of Persian soldiers surrounded by as they come to attack the Spartans?

5. What do the Persian army men wear on their heads as a part of their military uniforms?

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