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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. Which of the following is not one of the activities listed as part of Spartan life?
(a) Spartans train at controlling their fear.
(b) Spartans wrestle and run.
(c) Spartans love to fish.
(d) Spartans make sacrifices to their gods.

2. Who is Diomache?
(a) Diomache is the concubine of Xerxes.
(b) Diomache is the wife of Leonidas.
(c) Diomache is the cousin of Xeones.
(d) Diomache is one of the three Fates of Greek mythology.

3. How do the Spartans view war?
(a) The Spartans see war as a good form of population control.
(b) The Spartans see war to be simply work in the business of killing as many of the enemy as possible.
(c) The Spartans see war as the only way to peace.
(d) The Spartans see war as a terrible abomination.

4. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?
(a) He is depressed that he cannot fight with a spear.
(b) He is depressed that his girlfriend broke up with him.
(c) He is depressed that his family is dead.
(d) He prefers a death by freezing to the slow, painful death he will have due to his fever.

5. What does Leonidas do after the Antirhion king surrenders?
(a) He slaughters both soldiers and city folk alike.
(b) He executes the enemy soldiers, but allows the people in the city to survive.
(c) He spares the lives of the survivors and those in the city.
(d) He takes the survivors as slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first chapter, about how many Persians are said to have been slain in just three days of battle with the Spartans?

2. What are the Spartan battle games designed for?

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

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

5. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?

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