View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Hot Gates are a part of a massive cliff ______________ that blocks the path for many miles.
(a) Edge
(b) Building
(c) Wall
(d) Mountain

3. Who is doing the intense physical training depicted at the start of this chapter?
(a) Spartans
(b) Young boys
(c) Leonidas
(d) Persians

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Greek formation in #101, what must interlock in order to provide cover to the soldiers?

2. What does Leonidas believe the Persian King thinks he is?

3. Where are most of the Persian fighters forced to go when they are faced with the new Greek formation?

4. Leonidas quickly dispatches the ___________ to guard the secret path that Ephialtes reveals to him.

5. The Spartans are stacking up a large __________ of Persians even before the main battle begins.

Short Essay Questions

1. After the initial assault of the Persians is defeated, what do the Persians do next to the Spartans?

2. What has happened to the missing Persian scouting group?

3. What is the hoplite phalanx formation that the Spartans use and what happens when it is used in battle?

4. Who is the Persian representative that come into camp as the Spartans begin to ready for a major battle?

5. What does King Xerxes offer to Leonidas when he comes into the camp the evening after battle?

6. Where do the Spartan defensive tactics center (location-wise) in the beginning of this chapter?

7. What do the Spartans do with the Persian corpses from their battle in order to intimidate others, it seems?

8. What is the Persian Ambassador worried about when he approaches camp?

9. What does Leonidas see as a major flaw in King Xerxes?

10. Why wasn't Ephialtes left to die of exposure in the fields in Sparta like other deformed children?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 555 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample