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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. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?
(a) They turned to the Persian side.
(b) They were already defeated.
(c) They got the time wrong, as the months have different names than in Sparta.
(d) They were afraid of the Persians, and fled.

2. What happens to the raiding party that saves the life of Xerxes?
(a) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.
(b) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.
(c) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(d) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.

3. How old is Xeones when he flees the destruction of his home?
(a) He is eighteen.
(b) He is nine.
(c) He is twelve.
(d) He is in his middle teens.

4. What do the Spartans call their science of fear discipline?
(a) They call it phobologiea.
(b) They call it aphobia.
(c) They call it the void.
(d) They call it phobology.

5. What obstacle separates the two sides of the battleground?
(a) A creek bisects the field.
(b) A palisade bisects the field.
(c) A low stone wall bisects the field.
(d) A swift river runs through the center of the field.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Xeones' sparring partner?

3. What drives Polynikes according to Dienekes?

4. What does the Oracle tell the Spartans?

5. In Chapter 28, which Persian deserter asks for Xeones by name?

(see the answer key)

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