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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7: Leonidas, Chapter 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Xeones and Alexandros get across the gulf?
(a) They hire a boat.
(b) They go around.
(c) They take the ferry.
(d) They swim.

2. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?
(a) They were already defeated.
(b) They got the time wrong, as the months have different names than in Sparta.
(c) They turned to the Persian side.
(d) They were afraid of the Persians, and fled.

3. What does the merchant's sign say?
(a) It says "The best service only for you, my friend."
(b) It says "The best service in all the land."
(c) It says "The best service only for you, my foreskin."
(d) It says "The best service in all of Greece."

4. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?
(a) Dienekes and Rooster are the only father-son pair.
(b) Olympieus and Alexandros are the only father-son pair.
(c) Medan and Xeones are the only father-son pair.
(d) Leonidas and Karneius are the only father-son pair.

5. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?
(a) He is writing in his journal.
(b) He is sharpening his sword blade.
(c) He is fighting on the field of battle.
(d) He is sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, who dies on the final night of the training exercise?

2. How many boys are there in the training platoons, according to Xeones?

3. Why do the Spartans decide to send only three hundred soldiers to Thermopylae?

4. According to Xerxes, what is the greatest desire of Xeones?

5. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?

(see the answer key)

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