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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lady Arete's letter to Diomache say?
(a) The letter is to free Diomache from her service at the temple.
(b) The letter is a personal letter between old friends.
(c) The letter says that Xeones is free from his service and may marry Diomache.
(d) The letter says that Xeones' death will be honored.

2. When the dog chases the rabbit between the two armies and then kills it, what do the Greeks think it means?
(a) They think that the dog crushing the rabbit in its jaws signifies the empire of Persia crushing Greece.
(b) They take it as a sign that they will be victorious.
(c) They find it amusing and take it as good entertainment.
(d) They take it as a sign that the Persians will overpower them.

3. Why is Xerxes having trouble sleeping?
(a) He is being plagued by nightmares and guilt over the desecration of Leonidas' body.
(b) He cannot sleep after the slaughter of battle.
(c) He has contracted a terrible illness from one of the injured soldiers.
(d) He has dysentery.

4. What happens to the raiding party that saves the life of Xerxes?
(a) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.
(b) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.
(c) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(d) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.

5. Who does Xeones marry?
(a) He marries Diomache.
(b) He marries Agathe.
(c) He marries arete.
(d) He marries Thereia.

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

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

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

9. What does Xerxes believe about Xeones' story?
(a) He believes it all to be lies.
(b) He believes that it is true and pertinent to the war efforts.
(c) He believes it is true, but has no bearing on the battles ahead.
(d) He finds it entertaining, but is unsure of its truth.

10. Why does Artemisia tell Xerxes that he cannot leave the field of battle?
(a) She tells Xerxes that by returning to Persia, he would be missing a grand show in the defeat of the Greeks.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
(d) The Persians have no hope of taking Greece without their king.

11. Why does Leonidas keep the three hundred from getting new cloaks?
(a) He wants to wait until after the battle so he will not get cloaks for those who won't survive.
(b) He feels that there is no time for the ceremony, and that he and his men must leave immediately.
(c) He feels that it would be a waste of the city's resources to replace the cloaks of men who will not get to use them long.
(d) He wants to wait until after the battle so the new cloaks won't get torn and bloody.

12. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?
(a) He has several witnesses who admit that they saw him there.
(b) He shows Xerxes the place where his blade tore the wall of the tent in a back corner.
(c) He can offer only his word of honor that he is telling the truth.
(d) He recognizes the officer who threw the axe at him and wounded Alexandros.

13. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?
(a) He sees Xerxes in the Persian court while traveling as a child.
(b) He sees Xerxes in a dream of prophesy.
(c) He is a member of the raiding party that attempts to kill Xerxes in his tent.
(d) He sees Xerxes in battle.

14. 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 stripped of all rank and weapons and thrown out of the army.
(c) He is to be allowed to go free.
(d) He and his family are to be put to death.

15. Who authorizes the raid on Xerxes' tent?
(a) Polynikes authorizes it.
(b) King Leonidas authorizes it.
(c) Rooster authorizes it.
(d) Dienekes authorizes it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians to do about the Persian invasion?

3. After some of the helots and Thespians leave, about how many are left in the Greek forces?

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

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

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