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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 panoplia?
(a) It is the armor and shield that each soldier must carry.
(b) It is the final right of passage from boyhood to adult status.
(c) It is the lake near Sparta.
(d) It is an eight night training exercise.

2. What do the Spartans call their science of fear discipline?
(a) They call it aphobia.
(b) They call it phobology.
(c) They call it phobologiea.
(d) They call it the void.

3. What is oktonyktia?
(a) It is an eight-night training exercise.
(b) It is the lake near Sparta.
(c) It is the final right of passage from boyhood to adult status.
(d) It is the armor and shield that each soldier must carry.

4. Other than Ball Player and the dog, who is the other volunteer?
(a) The other volunteer is Minoas, a traitor from the Persian army.
(b) Tommie the Egyptian joined the Greeks.
(c) He is a merchant from Miletus, and his name is Elephantinos.
(d) The other volunteer is Olaph, the wandering Arab.

5. How does Arete convince the Peers to spare the child of Rooster?
(a) She kidnaps the child and flees Sparta.
(b) She and her husband swear that the child is his, and not Rooster's.
(c) She convinces them that whatever the father might have done, it is no fault of the child's.
(d) She pays bribes to them to allow the child to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what warrior code are young Spartans raised?

2. What does the merchant's sign say?

3. What is exoterike harmoniea?

4. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians to do about the Persian invasion?

5. What two groups fight the first encounter?

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