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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Dienekes, Chapter 24 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?
(a) King Xerxes trusts Xeones, and declares his words true.
(b) Artemisia tells the king that the surgeons would not have known of such an attack.
(c) Mardonius speaks up for Xeones' honor.
(d) Orontes, captain of the Immortals informs the king that Xeones was never once left alone with them.

2. What is panoplia?
(a) It is the armor and shield that each soldier must carry.
(b) It is an eight night training exercise.
(c) It is the final right of passage from boyhood to adult status.
(d) It is the lake near Sparta.

3. How does Xeones return to life from the grave?
(a) The Fate Clotho weaves his thread back into the pattern of life.
(b) Apollo returns him to life.
(c) He is given an elixir of immortality.
(d) His spirit roams the battlefield until eventually settling back into his body.

4. Why does Polynikes feel that Spartans are superior to any other people?
(a) He feels that all men are equal.
(b) He says that they are better because of war and manly valor.
(c) He feels that the gods show more favor to the Spartans than to anyone else.
(d) He says that the Spartans are far more intelligent than anyone else.

5. As Chapter 2 opens, what does Xeones say that the word Thermopylae means?
(a) It is Greek for "hot springs".
(b) It is Greek for "hot gates".
(c) It is Egyptian profanity.
(d) It is Greek for "spa".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Xeones and Alexandros catch up to the Spartan army?

2. Who is Xeones' sparring partner?

3. In the first chapter, about how many Persians are said to have been slain in just three days of battle with the Spartans?

4. How many children does Alexandros father by the age of twenty?

5. Why does Arete give Xeones coins?

(see the answer key)

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