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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Alexandros, Chapter 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Xeones when he flees the destruction of his home?
(a) He is nine.
(b) He is twelve.
(c) He is in his middle teens.
(d) He is eighteen.

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

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

4. Where do Xeones and Alexandros catch up to the Spartan army?
(a) They catch up to them at Antirhion.
(b) They catch up to them at the hot gate.
(c) They catch up to them at Thermopylae.
(d) They catch up to them at Rhion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What point does the author illustrate in these battle scenes about ancient warfare?

2. What does agoge boua mean?

3. Which of the following is not one of the activities listed as part of Spartan life?

4. Where does the Spartan king march and fight, relative to the rest of his army?

5. By what other name is Sparta called?

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