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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. Where is Rooster's mother's city?
(a) His mother's city is Sparta.
(b) His mother's city is Athens.
(c) His mother's city is Antirhion.
(d) His mother's city is Messenia.

2. How does Arete convince the Peers to spare the child of Rooster?
(a) She convinces them that whatever the father might have done, it is no fault of the child's.
(b) She kidnaps the child and flees Sparta.
(c) She and her husband swear that the child is his, and not Rooster's.
(d) She pays bribes to them to allow the child to go.

3. How many boys are there in the training platoons, according to Xeones?
(a) He says that there are twenty-five.
(b) He says that there are fourteen hundred.
(c) He says that there are seven hundred.
(d) He says that there are several thousand.

4. Who do the Spartans encounter on their way out of the Persian camp?
(a) They are seen by General Mardonius.
(b) They come across Persian soldiers rising for the morning.
(c) They run into another group of Egyptian marines.
(d) They do not encounter anyone on their flight from the Persian camp.

5. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?
(a) He numbers it at sixty squadrons.
(b) He numbers it at about two million men.
(c) He numbers it at one hundred ships.
(d) He says that the Persian fleet is innumerable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Egyptian tell the Spartans about the Persian invasion?

2. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?

3. What is the reason for Xeones returning to life?

4. What two groups fight the first encounter?

5. What is the standing order of Dienekes while on campaign?

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