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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Greek formation in #101, what must interlock in order to provide cover to the soldiers?
(a) Legs
(b) Shields
(c) Helmets
(d) Swords

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

4. What does the second wave of the Persians come to the Spartans on?
(a) Elephants
(b) Horses
(c) Camels
(d) Wagons

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

6. What does Leonidas recognize the tremors in the earth to be?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Persian army
(c) The angry gods
(d) Shifting soil

7. Who is watching from a distance and is becoming nervous that the Spartans might actually win?
(a) Ephialtes
(b) Oracle
(c) Xerxes
(d) Leonidas

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

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

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

11. Who takes the foremost point of the triangle in the new formation the Spartans take against the Persians?
(a) Daxos
(b) Stelios
(c) Leonidas
(d) Ephialtes

12. What kind of pushups are the soldiers in this chapter doing?
(a) Elbow
(b) Army precisional
(c) Bent leg
(d) One-armed

13. Where are most of the Persian fighters forced to go when they are faced with the new Greek formation?
(a) Into the Greek spears
(b) Sea
(c) Into each other
(d) Field

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

15. Which force has been in hiding and is sprung as the second trap against the Persian special army?
(a) Arcadian
(b) Roman
(c) Anatolian
(d) Athenian

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where were the forces of Daxos hiding from the Persian army?

4. The Spartans only need to defend a narrow strip of ______________ against the Persian attack when they are at the Hot Gates.

5. The family of Ephialtes left ____________ and traveled north to get away.

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