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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) Apollo appears to her.
(b) Zeus appears to her.
(c) Persephone appears to her.
(d) Ares appears to her.

2. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?
(a) They got the time wrong, as the months have different names than in Sparta.
(b) They were afraid of the Persians, and fled.
(c) They were already defeated.
(d) They turned to the Persian side.

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

4. 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 kidnaps the child and flees Sparta.
(c) She and her husband swear that the child is his, and not Rooster's.
(d) She pays bribes to them to allow the child to go.

5. 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.

6. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?
(a) He comes to conquer the land for natural resources.
(b) He comes to avenge the death of his father.
(c) He comes to have the Greek submit to him, and to have them offer him earth and water.
(d) He comes to plunder the riches of Greece.

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

8. What is mothax?
(a) It is the highest title of honor for Spartans.
(b) It is freedom from taxes.
(c) It is the grade of warrior youths somewhere between full citizen and helot.
(d) It is a golden metal awarded for valor.

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

10. According to Xerxes, what is the greatest desire of Xeones?
(a) His top priority is to escape Xerxes and return to Sparta with the intelligence that he has picked up in the Persian camp.
(b) He only wants to kill Xerxes, even at the cost of his own life.
(c) His greatest desire is to rejoin his brothers in arms beneath the earth in death.
(d) His desire to tell the story is greater than any other.

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him that the son of Rooster really was Dienekes' child.
(b) She tells him that she had been in love with Dienekes e since she was a young girl, even while married to his brother.
(c) She tells him that she has been in love with him for years.
(d) She tells him that she has been having an affair with Leonidas for years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?

2. What happens to the raiding party?

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

4. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?

5. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?

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