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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. What is Xeones trying to steal when he is caught?
(a) He is trying to steal a chicken.
(b) He is trying to steal a horse.
(c) He is trying to steal a goose.
(d) He is trying to steal some cabbage.

2. How are Spartan boys punished?
(a) They are whipped with sticks.
(b) They are locked in small rooms, called hotboxes.
(c) They are given harsh labor assignments as punishment.
(d) They are starved for short periods of time and totally ignored.

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?
(a) It is called sparring.
(b) It is called The Oak.
(c) It is called The Ploughman's Blade.
(d) It is called The Breaking.

4. What is the preferred weapon of Suicide?
(a) He prefers to use a longbow.
(b) He prefers to use his short javelins, called Darning Needles.
(c) He prefers to use his spear, the Eight-footer.
(d) He prefers to use his two short swords.

5. Why does Diomache feel that no man will want her?
(a) She is ugly.
(b) She was raped.
(c) She has a large scar on her face.
(d) She is too old.

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. By what other name is Sparta called?

3. What does Apollo tell Xeones about the spear in his vision?

4. What does Dienekes teach about fear?

5. How does Xeones describe Dienekes?

(see the answer key)

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