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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?
(a) Persephone appears to her.
(b) Apollo appears to her.
(c) Zeus appears to her.
(d) Ares appears to her.

2. According to Leonidas, how many men could the Persians mass behind the battle wall?
(a) They could only mass twenty or thirty men.
(b) They could mass one thousand men at most.
(c) The wall completely blocks off the pass.
(d) They could mass as many men as they care to.

3. How do the Persian forces surround the Greeks?
(a) They are told of a moutain pass by a Greek traitor.
(b) They sneak around the Greeks during the night.
(c) They go around the mountain.
(d) They sail around and march up from behind.

4. What does Leonidas say is the tell-all when battle comes?
(a) He says that courage will tell all.
(b) He says that physical strength will tell all.
(c) He says that practice of arms will tell all.
(d) He says that devotion to the gods will tell all.

5. How is Rooster related to Dienekes?
(a) Rooster is his brother's bastard son.
(b) Rooster is his friend.
(c) Rooster is not related to Dienekes.
(d) Rooster is his son.

6. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?
(a) He is absolved of his crime.
(b) He is slain by the krypteia.
(c) He is beaten with wooden rods.
(d) He is exiled and sent to the Persians.

7. Why does Arete give Xeones coins?
(a) She gives him the money as a gift for his birthday.
(b) She gives him the money to run away with and avoid death with the three hundred.
(c) She is paying him for his service to her husband.
(d) She is bribing him to remain silent of what he saw when he caught her with Polynikes.

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

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

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 taking the child to protect him from the others.
(c) He is stealing the child so that he can kill him.
(d) He is inspecting the child to see if he will be allowed to live.

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

12. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?
(a) Artemisia tells the king that the surgeons would not have known of such an attack.
(b) King Xerxes trusts Xeones, and declares his words true.
(c) Mardonius speaks up for Xeones' honor.
(d) Orontes, captain of the Immortals informs the king that Xeones was never once left alone with them.

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. In Chapter 29, what does Xeones say is the only thing a man really wants?
(a) He says that all a man wants is wealth.
(b) He says that all a man wants is to die with honor.
(c) He says that all a man wants is to live.
(d) He says that all a man wants is a good woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?

2. How many children does Xeones father?

3. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?

4. What is mothax?

5. What is the last thing that Xerxes says to Xeones as Chapter 19 closes?

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