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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 8: Thermopylae, Chapter 35 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of story does Xerxes want to hear in chapter one?
(a) He wants to hear a tale of generals and kings.
(b) He wants to hear about Spartan life during times of peace.
(c) He wants to hear "the infantryman's tale".
(d) He wants to hear "A Tale of Two Cities".

2. By what other name is Sparta called?
(a) Sparta is also called Lakedaemon.
(b) Sparta is also called Thermopylae.
(c) Sparta is also called The Hot Gates.
(d) Sparta is also called Mount Oracle.

3. 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.

4. According to Leonidas, how many men could the Persians mass behind the battle wall?
(a) They could mass as many men as they care to.
(b) They could only mass twenty or thirty men.
(c) The wall completely blocks off the pass.
(d) They could mass one thousand men at most.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the preferred weapon of Suicide?

2. Other than Ball Player and the dog, who is the other volunteer?

3. What epitaph is left for the Greeks who died at Thermopylae?

4. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?

5. What do the Spartans discover on their way to the tent of Xerxes?

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