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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. What is the standing order of Dienekes while on campaign?
(a) Dienekes is to be allowed to sleep until he wakes on his own.
(b) Dienekes is to be awakened two hours before sunrise.
(c) Dienekes is to be awakened with the dawn.
(d) Dienekes is to be awakened about mid-day.

2. What does Dienekes teach about fear?
(a) He teaches that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
(b) He teaches that fear is a very real, and dangerous thing.
(c) He teaches that fear is silly and unmanly.
(d) He teaches that fear defeats the enemies of Sparta.

3. There is a battle on the plain west of Antirhion. Who do the Spartans fight there?
(a) They fight the Antirhion army.
(b) They fight the army of Athens.
(c) They fight the Agrives.
(d) They fight the Persian army.

4. What does agoge boua mean?
(a) Agoge boua means eight-nighter.
(b) Agoge boua means battle rage.
(c) Agoge boua means training platoon.
(d) Agoge boua means honorable death.

5. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?
(a) He has several witnesses who admit that they saw him there.
(b) He recognizes the officer who threw the axe at him and wounded Alexandros.
(c) He can offer only his word of honor that he is telling the truth.
(d) He shows Xerxes the place where his blade tore the wall of the tent in a back corner.

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. If the krypteia have their way, how is Rooster to be punished for rejecting the offer?

3. As Chapter 2 opens, what does Xeones say that the word Thermopylae means?

4. How many children does Alexandros father by the age of twenty?

5. In Chapter 28, which Persian deserter asks for Xeones by name?

(see the answer key)

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