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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Alexandros, Chapter 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the parents of Xeones?
(a) They are killed trying to defend their home.
(b) They are captured and sold into slavery.
(c) They also escape, but are separated and spend years searching for him.
(d) They escape with him.

2. To whom does Xeones tell his story?
(a) He tells it to Lady Arete.
(b) He tells it to Xerxes.
(c) He tells it to a scribe.
(d) He tells it to Leonidas.

3. Who is Xerxes?
(a) He is the king of the Persian empire.
(b) He is the narrator of the story.
(c) He is the king of the Spartan city-state.
(d) He is a great hero of the Punic Wars.

4. How does Xeones return to life from the grave?
(a) He is given an elixir of immortality.
(b) His spirit roams the battlefield until eventually settling back into his body.
(c) The Fate Clotho weaves his thread back into the pattern of life.
(d) Apollo returns him to life.

5. Who is Xeones' sparring partner?
(a) Polynikes is Xeones' sparring partner.
(b) Rooster is Xeones' sparring partner.
(c) Alexandros is Xeones' sparring partner.
(d) Xerxes is Xeones' sparring partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Xeones when he flees the destruction of his home?

2. What is the purpose of the speech Leonidas gives after this battle?

3. How old are Xeones and Diomache when they separate?

4. What happens to Xeones when he is caught stealing?

5. Thermopylae is described as what?

(see the answer key)

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