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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?
(a) The wooden wall alone shall not fail you.
(b) Fly to the corners of the earth.
(c) The enemy will overrun and destroy you.
(d) Only with the Spartans may you defeat the enemy.

3. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?
(a) They are a few miles outside of Sparta.
(b) They are at the Three-Cornered Way in Attika.
(c) They are in the hills outside of Thessaly.
(d) They are just leaving Thermopylae.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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 they should desert and return home, because the Spartans would be overrun by the next day.
(c) He tells them to fight with valor, and die a warrior's death.
(d) He tells them that he knows of a way to get a dozen men to the tent of the Persian king.

10. 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 a vengeful spirit, ready to haunt Xerxes or eternity.
(c) Xerxes sees Leonidas as he might have been as a child.
(d) Xerxes sees Leonidas as whole and alive once again.

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

12. What happens to the raiding party?
(a) They fight against terrible odds, but manage to kill Xerxes before being killed to a man.
(b) They fight to the death.
(c) Alexandros' hand is cut off, and a few others are killed, so Dienekes calls the retreat.
(d) They are captured.

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

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

15. Why does Leonidas include inexperienced soldiers in the three hundred?
(a) All of his experienced fighters are old, and he wants some young muscle to help carry the workload.
(b) He hand selects each soldier, knowing that all of them will die, because he needs men that are expendable.
(c) He runs out of heroes, and is forced to include young men who have little or no fighting experience.
(d) He believes that the chain is made stronger by including unproven links mixed in with the more experienced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two groups fight the first encounter?

2. When does Darius of Persia die?

3. What do the Spartans and their allies do when they see the Persians for the first time?

4. For what valor in battle is Rooster offered new status as mothax?

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

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