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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Alexandros, Chapter 8 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the parents of Xeones?
(a) They are captured and sold into slavery.
(b) They escape with him.
(c) They are killed trying to defend their home.
(d) They also escape, but are separated and spend years searching for him.

3. What do the Spartans call their science of fear discipline?
(a) They call it aphobia.
(b) They call it the void.
(c) They call it phobologiea.
(d) They call it phobology.

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

5. What is exoterike harmoniea?
(a) Exoterike harmoniea is a state of self composure attained through the control of fear.
(b) Exoterike harmoniea is a composition dedicated to the gods.
(c) Exoterike harmoniea is a state of union with one's fellows.
(d) Exoterike harmoniea is the musical harmony of a multistringed instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sacks the city-state that was the birthplace of Xeones?

2. Who is Diomache?

3. What do the people of Sparta sing as the soldiers march off to war?

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

5. What does Dienekes tell the Egyptian about freedom?

(see the answer key)

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