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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 point does the author illustrate in these battle scenes about ancient warfare?
(a) War is a great and glorious undertaking.
(b) War is a bloody business, and not for the faint of heart.
(c) Men who make their business warfare rather than farming perform better on the field.
(d) War is, unfortunately, unavoidable.

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

3. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?
(a) The wooden wall alone shall not fail you.
(b) The enemy will overrun and destroy you.
(c) Fly to the corners of the earth.
(d) Only with the Spartans may you defeat the enemy.

4. In the first chapter, about how many Persians are said to have been slain in just three days of battle with the Spartans?
(a) About twenty thousand were slain.
(b) About four thousand were slain.
(c) No fewer than twenty thousand were slain.
(d) No more than twenty thousand were slain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Leonidas, how many men could the Persians mass behind the battle wall?

2. What is the last thing that Xerxes says to Xeones as Chapter 19 closes?

3. What is the preferred weapon of Suicide?

4. Who do the Spartans encounter on their way out of the Persian camp?

5. According to Xeones, each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one what?

(see the answer key)

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