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

2. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
(a) There are twenty thousand.
(b) There are several thousand.
(c) There are only three hundred.
(d) There are fifty thousand men.

3. There is a battle on the plain west of Antirhion. Who do the Spartans fight there?
(a) They fight the Agrives.
(b) They fight the Antirhion army.
(c) They fight the army of Athens.
(d) They fight the Persian army.

4. Who are the two narrators of this story?
(a) Xerxes and Leonidas are the narrators.
(b) There is only one narrator, Xeones.
(c) The scribe and Xeones are the narrators.
(d) Ball Player and Rooster are the narrators.

5. Who is Diomache?
(a) Diomache is one of the three Fates of Greek mythology.
(b) Diomache is the wife of Leonidas.
(c) Diomache is the cousin of Xeones.
(d) Diomache is the concubine of Xerxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Xerxes having trouble sleeping?

2. How does Arete convince the Peers to spare the child of Rooster?

3. For what valor in battle is Rooster offered new status as mothax?

4. What is Hermion's nickname?

5. Where is Rooster's mother's city?

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