Gates of Fire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Steven Pressfield
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 160 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Gates of Fire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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

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

3. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?
(a) He sees Xerxes in a dream of prophesy.
(b) He sees Xerxes in the Persian court while traveling as a child.
(c) He is a member of the raiding party that attempts to kill Xerxes in his tent.
(d) He sees Xerxes in battle.

4. Why does Arete give Xeones coins?
(a) She gives him the money to run away with and avoid death with the three hundred.
(b) She gives him the money as a gift for his birthday.
(c) She is bribing him to remain silent of what he saw when he caught her with Polynikes.
(d) She is paying him for his service to her husband.

5. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?
(a) They are at the Three-Cornered Way in Attika.
(b) They are just leaving Thermopylae.
(c) They are a few miles outside of Sparta.
(d) They are in the hills outside of Thessaly.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what warrior code are young Spartans raised?

2. What happens to the raiding party?

3. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?

4. What does the Egyptian tell the Spartans about the Persian invasion?

5. Where does the Spartan king march and fight, relative to the rest of his army?

(see the answer key)

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