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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nation is the second to assault the Greeks?
(a) The Medes are the second group sent by the Persians.
(b) The Armenians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(c) The Egyptians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(d) The Sacae are the second group sent by the Persians.

2. Knowing that everyone will die the next day, what does Leonidas tell his men?
(a) He tells them all to fight with valor and die a good death.
(b) The Greeks are to retreat.
(c) The helots are freed from service and may leave.
(d) The watch is to be doubled to keep anyone from deserting.

3. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?
(a) Dienekes and Rooster are the only father-son pair.
(b) Leonidas and Karneius are the only father-son pair.
(c) Medan and Xeones are the only father-son pair.
(d) Olympieus and Alexandros are the only father-son pair.

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

5. What can Xeones see toward the middle gate?
(a) He sees the sheer cliffs of the pass.
(b) He sees the Persians.
(c) He sees a large fox.
(d) He sees the bath houses.

6. If the krypteia have their way, how is Rooster to be punished for rejecting the offer?
(a) He is to be allowed to go free.
(b) He is to be sold into slavery.
(c) He and his family are to be put to death.
(d) He is to be stripped of all rank and weapons and thrown out of the army.

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

8. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?
(a) They split into two teams, and pursue both the mission and the new discovery.
(b) They ignore it and continue with the mission.
(c) They abandon their mission.
(d) They send Telamonias back to report to Leonidas.

9. What does the merchant's sign say?
(a) It says "The best service in all the land."
(b) It says "The best service in all of Greece."
(c) It says "The best service only for you, my friend."
(d) It says "The best service only for you, my foreskin."

10. 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) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.
(c) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(d) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.

11. What does Rooster suggest to Xeones and Alexandros?
(a) He tells them that they should abandon the army and join the Persians, just like him.
(b) He tells them that he knows of a way to get a dozen men to the tent of the Persian king.
(c) He tells them to fight with valor, and die a warrior's death.
(d) He tells them that they should desert and return home, because the Spartans would be overrun by the next day.

12. When king Leonidas gives his speech on the night of the arrival of the Persian force, to whom is he speaking?
(a) He is speaking to the entire combined forces.
(b) He is speaking to all of the allied officers and the Spartan officers.
(c) He is speaking to the Spartan officers.
(d) He is speaking to the allied officers.

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

14. What is the original total number of troops that would leave for Thermopylae?
(a) There are three hundred.
(b) There are two million.
(c) There are twenty thousand.
(d) There are three thousand.

15. Why do the Phokians miss the meeting?
(a) They are attacked and must remain to defend their city.
(b) They are nearly overrun by the Persians, so they flee.
(c) They have all been slain by the Persians.
(d) They go over to the Persian side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xerxes believe about Xeones' story?

2. How is Rooster related to Dienekes?

3. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?

4. In Chapter 29, what does Xeones say is the only thing a man really wants?

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

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