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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Dienekes tell Alexandros has haunted him his whole life?
(a) Why do men fight wars?
(b) What is the opposite of fear?
(c) Why does fear hold such power over men?
(d) What exactly is fear?

2. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?
(a) If under compulsion you must fight us your brothers, fight badly.
(b) It is better to die free than live a slave.
(c) You are traitors. May the gods curse you all.
(d) You have no choice. You are forgiven.

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

4. How does Rooster originally feel about Alexandros?
(a) He feels that Alexandros is far braver than he will ever be.
(b) He feels that Alexandros is a good friend who will always be loyal to him.
(c) He feels that he is braver and a better warrior than Alexandros, and he hates him.
(d) He loves Alexandros as his own brother, and would allow no harm to come to him.

5. What does the Oracle tell the Spartans?
(a) They will lose a king, and then the city will fall.
(b) They will lose many soldiers, but they will win the fight.
(c) They will either lose a king, or the city will fall.
(d) They will not lose a single officer, and the city will stand.

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

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

8. 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 only half of the troop they were expecting.
(d) They find the Egyptian Tommie.

9. Who stands to defend Athens during the Persian attack?
(a) Athens is completely abandoned.
(b) Athens is defended by the full Athenian legions.
(c) Athens is defended by a small band of fanatics only.
(d) Athens is defended by the Spartans.

10. For what valor in battle is Rooster offered new status as mothax?
(a) He defeats an armed Persian with his bare hands.
(b) He rescues Olympieus.
(c) He captures an enemy officer.
(d) He breaks the Persian line.

11. When does Darius of Persia die?
(a) He dies during the battle at Antirhion.
(b) He dies on the Ides of March.
(c) He dies three years before the battle at Antirhion.
(d) He dies three years after the battle at Antirhion.

12. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
(a) There are several thousand.
(b) There are only three hundred.
(c) There are twenty thousand.
(d) There are fifty thousand men.

13. 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 Mound.
(d) They call it The Great Hill.

14. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?
(a) It is the traitor, Rooster.
(b) It is the lady Artemisia.
(c) It is the Persian general Mardonius.
(d) It is king Xerxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the raiding party?

2. Why do the Spartans decide to send only three hundred soldiers to Thermopylae?

3. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?

4. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?

5. Other than Ball Player and the dog, who is the other volunteer?

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