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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. 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 Egyptian Tommie.
(b) They find the Persians waiting there for them.
(c) They find the area abandoned with the exception of a few local people.
(d) They find only half of the troop they were expecting.

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

3. Who is Suicide?
(a) He is an old statesman who sits on the senate.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a young fighter from Scythia.
(d) He is a fierce warrior from Syria.

4. What do the Athenians call the high part of the city?
(a) They call it The Great Hill.
(b) They call it the Acropolis.
(c) They call it The Mound.
(d) They call it the royal compound.

5. Who is Xerxes?
(a) He is a great hero of the Punic Wars.
(b) He is the narrator of the story.
(c) He is the king of the Persian empire.
(d) He is the king of the Spartan city-state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?

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

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

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

5. What do the Spartans call their science of fear discipline?

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