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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 are the Spartan battle games designed for?
(a) They are designed as a way to pass time.
(b) They are designed to entertain the boys and keep them out of trouble.
(c) They are designed to simulate battle for training.
(d) They are designed as entertainment for the people.

2. Where does Bruxieus tell Xeones and Diomache to go?
(a) He tells them to go to Sparta.
(b) He tells them to go to Thessaly.
(c) He tells them to go to Rome.
(d) He tells them to go to Athens.

3. What causes Xeones to continue the story?
(a) Xerxes told him that he would kill him if he did not continue.
(b) Dmaratos, a cruel Persian soldier, threatened to beat him if he did not continue.
(c) Xeones decides to finish the story.
(d) Dmaratos, a deposed Spartan king, reminds him of his duty to Apollo.

4. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?
(a) Xeones is from a country farm in Akarnania, not a city-state.
(b) Xeones is from in Athens.
(c) Xeones is from in Sparta.
(d) Xeones is from in Astakos.

5. Who is Paraleio?
(a) She is a prostitute.
(b) She is the cousin of Xeones.
(c) She is the mother of Alexandros.
(d) She is the wife of Xerxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is oktonyktia?

2. Why does Dienekes initially resist marrying Lady Arete?

3. How do the Spartans view war?

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

5. How does Polynikes react to Alexandros' answer?

(see the answer key)

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