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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) You have no choice. You are forgiven.
(c) It is better to die free than live a slave.
(d) You are traitors. May the gods curse you all.

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

4. 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.

5. How many men make up the party that attacks Xerxes' tent?
(a) There are eleven men.
(b) There are seven men.
(c) There are tweny men.
(d) There are eight men.

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

7. 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.

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

9. What nation is the second to assault the Greeks?
(a) The Sacae 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 Medes are the second group sent by the Persians.

10. How many children does Xeones father?
(a) He has two sons.
(b) He has a son and a daughter.
(c) He only has one child, a son.
(d) He has two daughters.

11. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?
(a) If Xerxes leaves his army in the hands of a general, the general might return victorious from Greece only to take over the empire for himself.
(b) The Persians have no hope of taking Greece without their king.
(c) She tells Xerxes that by returning to Persia, he would be missing a grand show in the defeat of the Greeks.
(d) She tells him that if he leaves after the Oracle spoke to the Spartans, that all of Greece would say that he was running from a dream.

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

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

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

15. If the krypteia have their way, how is Rooster to be punished for rejecting the offer?
(a) He is to be sold into slavery.
(b) He is to be allowed to go free.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?

2. How is Rooster related to Dienekes?

3. What oath does Arete swear to Xeones?

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

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

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