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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. What two groups fight the first encounter?
(a) The Thespians fight the Armenians.
(b) The Spartans fight the Egyptians.
(c) The Thespians fight the Medes.
(d) The Spartans fight the Persians.

2. In the first chapter, about how many Persians are said to have been slain in just three days of battle with the Spartans?
(a) No fewer than twenty thousand were slain.
(b) About twenty thousand were slain.
(c) No more than twenty thousand were slain.
(d) About four thousand were slain.

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

4. What is the purpose of the speech Leonidas gives after this battle?
(a) He congratulates them on their great victory and releases them for a day to pillage the city.
(b) He berates them for their lack of courage and for their weakness.
(c) He congratulates them on the victory, and commends their behavior towards the prisoners.
(d) He thanks the survivors and honors the fallen, while refocusing their attention on the main battle to come.

5. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?
(a) Ares appears to her.
(b) Apollo appears to her.
(c) Zeus appears to her.
(d) Persephone appears to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point does the author illustrate in these battle scenes about ancient warfare?

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

3. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?

4. Why is Xerxes having trouble sleeping?

5. What does agoge boua mean?

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