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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Polynikes, Chapter 20 - 23.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the Spartans do when they reach the field of battle?
(a) They send some men to sneak around and flank the enemy.
(b) They immediately retreat.
(c) They calmly go about getting ready for battle, and wait for the enemy.
(d) They charge recklessly into the melee.
2. What does Dienekes tell the Egyptian about freedom?
(a) He tells the Egyptian that it is better to live as a slave than to die free.
(b) He tells the Egyptian that freedom must be bought with steel, not gold.
(c) He tells the Egyptian that the only free men are dead men.
(d) He tells the Egyptian that freedom is a state of mind.
3. Why is Xerxes having trouble sleeping?
(a) He has dysentery.
(b) He is being plagued by nightmares and guilt over the desecration of Leonidas' body.
(c) He has contracted a terrible illness from one of the injured soldiers.
(d) He cannot sleep after the slaughter of battle.
4. What does Leonidas do after the Antirhion king surrenders?
(a) He spares the lives of the survivors and those in the city.
(b) He takes the survivors as slaves.
(c) He slaughters both soldiers and city folk alike.
(d) He executes the enemy soldiers, but allows the people in the city to survive.
5. What is exoterike harmoniea?
(a) Exoterike harmoniea is a state of union with one's fellows.
(b) Exoterike harmoniea is a composition dedicated to the gods.
(c) Exoterike harmoniea is a state of self composure attained through the control of fear.
(d) Exoterike harmoniea is the musical harmony of a multistringed instrument.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?
2. In Chapter 9, who dies on the final night of the training exercise?
3. What is mothax?
4. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
5. Who does Xeones marry?
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