1. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?
(a) They find the area abandoned with the exception of a few local people.
(b) They find the Egyptian Tommie.
(c) They find only half of the troop they were expecting.
(d) They find the Persians waiting there for them.

2. What is the reason for Xeones returning to life?
(a) Xeones returns to avenge his people.
(b) Due to the violent nature of his death, the spirit of Xeones can not pass on to the world of the dead.
(c) Xeones returns to warn the Spartan people that the battle has been lost.
(d) Xeones is to tell the story of the Battle of Thermopylae.

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

4. Who comes for Rooster after he turns down the offer of mothax?
(a) Polynikes and four assassins of the krypteia came for him.
(b) The royal guard came for him.
(c) No one comes for him.
(d) Twenty Peers come for him.

5. What does the Egyptian tell the Spartans about the Persian invasion?
(a) He tells them to join Xerxes voluntarily like the Egyptians did.
(b) He tells them that Xerxes will slaughter them regardless of what they do.
(c) He tells them that the Persians would be easily defeated while still at sea.
(d) He tells them to never surrender.