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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 happens to the raiding party that saves the life of Xerxes?
(a) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(b) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.
(c) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.
(d) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.

2. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?
(a) They send Telamonias back to report to Leonidas.
(b) They abandon their mission.
(c) They split into two teams, and pursue both the mission and the new discovery.
(d) They ignore it and continue with the mission.

3. What does the Egyptian tell the Spartans about the Persian invasion?
(a) He tells them that Xerxes will slaughter them regardless of what they do.
(b) He tells them that the Persians would be easily defeated while still at sea.
(c) He tells them to never surrender.
(d) He tells them to join Xerxes voluntarily like the Egyptians did.

4. When the dog chases the rabbit between the two armies and then kills it, what do the Greeks think it means?
(a) They take it as a sign that they will be victorious.
(b) They think that the dog crushing the rabbit in its jaws signifies the empire of Persia crushing Greece.
(c) They find it amusing and take it as good entertainment.
(d) They take it as a sign that the Persians will overpower them.

5. What does Dienekes tell Alexandros after Polynikes' lecture?
(a) He tells the boy that someday he'll be able to dish it right back in Polynikes' face.
(b) He tells the boy that he will eventually outrank Polynikes anyways.
(c) He tells the boy that Polynikes is just full of hot air.
(d) He tells the boy that he will never amount to anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the two narrators of this story?

2. What does Xeones become in the Spartan army?

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

4. Xeones tells of an exercise that the people in the baggage train practice where they serve as punching bags for the Spartan heavy infantry. What is this exercise called?

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

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