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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 does Dienekes teach about fear?
(a) He teaches that fear is silly and unmanly.
(b) He teaches that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
(c) He teaches that fear defeats the enemies of Sparta.
(d) He teaches that fear is a very real, and dangerous thing.

2. Why is Xerxes warned about the story of the Spartans?
(a) It is false.
(b) It is long and boring.
(c) It is difficult to understand.
(d) It contains much foul language.

3. Who were the first soldiers to arrive at Thermopylae?
(a) The Thespians were the first to arrive.
(b) The Spartan heavy infantry were first to arrive.
(c) The Persians were the first to arrive.
(d) The Spartan Rangers were first to arrive.

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

5. How does Xeones return to life from the grave?
(a) The Fate Clotho weaves his thread back into the pattern of life.
(b) Apollo returns him to life.
(c) He is given an elixir of immortality.
(d) His spirit roams the battlefield until eventually settling back into his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of story does Xerxes want to hear in chapter one?

2. Why does Diomache feel that no man will want her?

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

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

5. How are Spartan boys punished?

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