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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Xeones tell his story?
(a) He tells it to Lady Arete.
(b) He tells it to a scribe.
(c) He tells it to Leonidas.
(d) He tells it to Xerxes.

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. Why does Xeones refuse to narrate anymore?
(a) He finds out about the mutilation of king Leonidas' body.
(b) He learns that Xerxes is going to kill him after he completes his story.
(c) He realizes that telling Xerxes of Spartan warfare is treason.
(d) He grows bored with the work.

4. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?
(a) He prefers a death by freezing to the slow, painful death he will have due to his fever.
(b) He is depressed that he cannot fight with a spear.
(c) He is depressed that his family is dead.
(d) He is depressed that his girlfriend broke up with him.

5. Who is Paraleio?
(a) She is the wife of Xerxes.
(b) She is the cousin of Xeones.
(c) She is the mother of Alexandros.
(d) She is a prostitute.

6. What is Xeones trying to steal when he is caught?
(a) He is trying to steal some cabbage.
(b) He is trying to steal a chicken.
(c) He is trying to steal a goose.
(d) He is trying to steal a horse.

7. Where do Xeones and Alexandros catch up to the Spartan army?
(a) They catch up to them at the hot gate.
(b) They catch up to them at Thermopylae.
(c) They catch up to them at Rhion.
(d) They catch up to them at Antirhion.

8. Who does Diomache take with her?
(a) She takes the dog, Happy.
(b) She doesn't take anyone.
(c) She takes the dog, Lucky.
(d) She takes the old blind slave, Bruxieus.

9. How does the Egyptian number the Persian fleet?
(a) He numbers it at one hundred ships.
(b) He numbers it at about two million men.
(c) He numbers it at sixty squadrons.
(d) He says that the Persian fleet is innumerable.

10. Which of the following is not one of the activities listed as part of Spartan life?
(a) Spartans train at controlling their fear.
(b) Spartans make sacrifices to their gods.
(c) Spartans wrestle and run.
(d) Spartans love to fish.

11. There is a battle on the plain west of Antirhion. Who do the Spartans fight there?
(a) They fight the Antirhion army.
(b) They fight the army of Athens.
(c) They fight the Persian army.
(d) They fight the Agrives.

12. What does Dienekes teach about fear?
(a) He teaches that fear is silly and unmanly.
(b) He teaches that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
(c) He teaches that fear defeats the enemies of Sparta.
(d) He teaches that fear is a very real, and dangerous thing.

13. Why do the Spartans use that method to count their dead?
(a) It is an ancient tradition that has been passed down for generations.
(b) It helps to keep their minds occupied and off of the fact that only moments earlier they were slaughtering men like farmers reaping wheat.
(c) It is done to confuse the enemy.
(d) It is the Spartan law that the dead be counted in such a way.

14. What is the Antirhion army primarily composed of?
(a) It is mainly mercenaries hired from neighboring kingdoms.
(b) It is an unorganized rabble of bandits and highwaymen.
(c) It is mainly citizen soldiers.
(d) It is mainly well trained regulars, career soldiers.

15. After their return to Sparta, how does Alexandros tell Polynikes the battle made him feel?
(a) He tells Polynikes that he was amused by the ease with which they defeated the enemy.
(b) He tells Polynikes that the battle made him sick.
(c) He tells Polynikes that the battle didn't effect him at all.
(d) He tells Polynikes that he experienced a bloodlust during the battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Lady Arete asking about?

2. Thermopylae is described as what?

3. What obstacle separates the two sides of the battleground?

4. Where does Bruxieus tell Xeones and Diomache to go?

5. Who is Xerxes?

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