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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Dienekes, Chapter 24 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the original total number of troops that would leave for Thermopylae?
(a) There are three thousand.
(b) There are three hundred.
(c) There are two million.
(d) There are twenty thousand.

2. Who does Xeones marry?
(a) He marries Thereia.
(b) He marries Diomache.
(c) He marries arete.
(d) He marries Agathe.

3. How do the Persian forces surround the Greeks?
(a) They go around the mountain.
(b) They sail around and march up from behind.
(c) They are told of a moutain pass by a Greek traitor.
(d) They sneak around the Greeks during the night.

4. Why do the Spartans decide to send only three hundred soldiers to Thermopylae?
(a) The Spartans do not feel that the Persians are a real threat to them, so three hundred should more than suffice.
(b) A larger force would not have room to fight, and would cause supply problems.
(c) The three hundred is only the advance force meant to hold off the Persians long enough for the main force to arrive.
(d) The Spartan senate refuses to send troops to Thermopylae, and the three hundred are the only volunteers.

5. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?
(a) Persephone appears to her.
(b) Ares appears to her.
(c) Apollo appears to her.
(d) Zeus appears to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Arete's letter to Diomache say?

2. By what warrior code are young Spartans raised?

3. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?

4. What is mothax?

5. What oath does Alexandros swear the night of Rooster's trial?

(see the answer key)

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