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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Rooster, Chapter 12 - 14.

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 goose.
(c) He is trying to steal a horse.
(d) He is trying to steal some cabbage.

2. Who is Dienekes' squire?
(a) Suicide is his squire.
(b) Xeones is his squire.
(c) Rooster is his squire.
(d) Alexandros is his squire.

3. What does Leonidas do after the Antirhion king surrenders?
(a) He slaughters both soldiers and city folk alike.
(b) He spares the lives of the survivors and those in the city.
(c) He executes the enemy soldiers, but allows the people in the city to survive.
(d) He takes the survivors as slaves.

4. How do the Spartans view war?
(a) The Spartans see war to be simply work in the business of killing as many of the enemy as possible.
(b) The Spartans see war as a terrible abomination.
(c) The Spartans see war as the only way to peace.
(d) The Spartans see war as a good form of population control.

5. In the first chapter, about how many Persians are said to have been slain in just three days of battle with the Spartans?
(a) No more than twenty thousand were slain.
(b) About four thousand were slain.
(c) About twenty thousand were slain.
(d) No fewer than twenty thousand were slain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Xeones, each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one what?

2. What happens to Xeones when he is caught stealing?

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

4. After their return to Sparta, how does Alexandros tell Polynikes the battle made him feel?

5. What happens to the parents of Xeones?

(see the answer key)

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