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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Xerxes, Chapter 5 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what other name is Sparta called?
(a) Sparta is also called Thermopylae.
(b) Sparta is also called Lakedaemon.
(c) Sparta is also called Mount Oracle.
(d) Sparta is also called The Hot Gates.

2. How many sons has Arete born Dienekes?
(a) They have had many sons.
(b) They have had one son.
(c) They have had only daughters.
(d) They have had three sons.

3. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?
(a) Xeones is from in Sparta.
(b) Xeones is from in Athens.
(c) Xeones is from in Astakos.
(d) Xeones is from a country farm in Akarnania, not a city-state.

4. What kind of story does Xerxes want to hear in chapter one?
(a) He wants to hear "A Tale of Two Cities".
(b) He wants to hear a tale of generals and kings.
(c) He wants to hear "the infantryman's tale".
(d) He wants to hear about Spartan life during times of peace.

5. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?
(a) He is depressed that his girlfriend broke up with him.
(b) He is depressed that he cannot fight with a spear.
(c) He prefers a death by freezing to the slow, painful death he will have due to his fever.
(d) He is depressed that his family is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?

2. The first time Xeones sees the Persian fleet, he meets an Egyptian. What was the Egyptian's name?

3. 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?

4. What is the preferred weapon of Suicide?

5. Who were the first soldiers to arrive at Thermopylae?

(see the answer key)

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