Gates of Fire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Steven Pressfield
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 160 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Gates of Fire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Steven Pressfield
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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 are the names of the two dogs that Xeones and Diomache find?
(a) The dogs are Bruno and Flanx.
(b) The dogs are Lucky and Bruno.
(c) The dogs are Happy and Lucky.
(d) The dogs are Leonidas and Xerxes.

2. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?
(a) He numbers it at about two million men.
(b) He says that the Persian fleet is innumerable.
(c) He numbers it at one hundred ships.
(d) He numbers it at sixty squadrons.

3. What oath does Alexandros swear the night of Rooster's trial?
(a) He swears that he will show mercy on Rooster in honor of their friendship.
(b) He swears that Rooster will never be seen again.
(c) He swears that if ever Rooster meets them on the field of battle, that he will slay Rooster himself.
(d) He swears that he will carry out the orders of the krypteis give him.

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

5. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him that the son of Rooster really was Dienekes' child.
(b) She tells him that she had been in love with Dienekes e since she was a young girl, even while married to his brother.
(c) She tells him that she has been having an affair with Leonidas for years.
(d) She tells him that she has been in love with him for years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Spartans count their dead?

2. What are the Spartan battle games designed for?

3. What does Apollo tell Xeones about the spear in his vision?

4. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?

5. The first time Xeones sees the Persian fleet, he meets an Egyptian. What was the Egyptian's name?

(see the answer key)

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