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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What oath does Alexandros swear the night of Rooster's trial?
(a) He swears that if ever Rooster meets them on the field of battle, that he will slay Rooster himself.
(b) He swears that he will show mercy on Rooster in honor of their friendship.
(c) He swears that Rooster will never be seen again.
(d) He swears that he will carry out the orders of the krypteis give him.

2. What do the Spartans discover on their way to the tent of Xerxes?
(a) They find out that Xerxes has caught wind of their plan, and has moved his tent.
(b) They find out that Xerxes has found a path around the gates, and that he has ordered troops to surround the Greeks.
(c) They find out that Rooster is leading them into a trap.
(d) They discover a much better patch of ground on which to fight the Persians.

3. What do the Spartans and their allies do when they see the Persians for the first time?
(a) They attack the Persians.
(b) They run away.
(c) They shout insults at the Persians.
(d) They surrender to the Persians.

4. How does Leonidas appear to Xerxes in his dream?
(a) Xerxes sees Leonidas as a vengeful spirit, ready to haunt Xerxes or eternity.
(b) Xerxes sees Leonidas beheaded, with his body nailed to a tree and his head impaled on a spike.
(c) Xerxes sees Leonidas as whole and alive once again.
(d) Xerxes sees Leonidas as he might have been as a child.

5. Who are the non-Spartan members of the raiding party?
(a) They are Dithyrambos and Doreion.
(b) They are Rooster and Tommie.
(c) They are Rooster and Ball Player.
(d) They are Tommie and Dithyrambos.

6. How does Arete convince the Peers to spare the child of Rooster?
(a) She convinces them that whatever the father might have done, it is no fault of the child's.
(b) She pays bribes to them to allow the child to go.
(c) She and her husband swear that the child is his, and not Rooster's.
(d) She kidnaps the child and flees Sparta.

7. What two groups fight the first encounter?
(a) The Spartans fight the Egyptians.
(b) The Thespians fight the Armenians.
(c) The Thespians fight the Medes.
(d) The Spartans fight the Persians.

8. Why does Leonidas keep the three hundred from getting new cloaks?
(a) He wants to wait until after the battle so the new cloaks won't get torn and bloody.
(b) He feels that there is no time for the ceremony, and that he and his men must leave immediately.
(c) He feels that it would be a waste of the city's resources to replace the cloaks of men who will not get to use them long.
(d) He wants to wait until after the battle so he will not get cloaks for those who won't survive.

9. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?
(a) The opposite of fear is glory.
(b) The opposite of fear is courage.
(c) The opposite of fear is love.
(d) The opposite of fear is aphobia.

10. Why does Medon take the baby after the Peers all go home?
(a) He wants to have a look at the child.
(b) He is inspecting the child to see if he will be allowed to live.
(c) He is taking the child to protect him from the others.
(d) He is stealing the child so that he can kill him.

11. 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) Mardonius speaks up for Xeones' honor.
(c) Orontes, captain of the Immortals informs the king that Xeones was never once left alone with them.
(d) Artemisia tells the king that the surgeons would not have known of such an attack.

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

13. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?
(a) He shows Xerxes the place where his blade tore the wall of the tent in a back corner.
(b) He can offer only his word of honor that he is telling the truth.
(c) He recognizes the officer who threw the axe at him and wounded Alexandros.
(d) He has several witnesses who admit that they saw him there.

14. Who does Xeones marry?
(a) He marries arete.
(b) He marries Diomache.
(c) He marries Agathe.
(d) He marries Thereia.

15. What happens to the raiding party?
(a) They fight to the death.
(b) Alexandros' hand is cut off, and a few others are killed, so Dienekes calls the retreat.
(c) They fight against terrible odds, but manage to kill Xerxes before being killed to a man.
(d) They are captured.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?

2. Who comes for Rooster after he turns down the offer of mothax?

3. How is Rooster related to Dienekes?

4. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?

5. When does Darius of Persia die?

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