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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Xeones' sparring partner?
(a) Polynikes is Xeones' sparring partner.
(b) Rooster is Xeones' sparring partner.
(c) Alexandros is Xeones' sparring partner.
(d) Xerxes is Xeones' sparring partner.

2. Who is Dienekes' squire?
(a) Alexandros is his squire.
(b) Suicide is his squire.
(c) Rooster is his squire.
(d) Xeones is his squire.

3. What kind of story does Xerxes want to hear in chapter one?
(a) He wants to hear a tale of generals and kings.
(b) He wants to hear about Spartan life during times of peace.
(c) He wants to hear "the infantryman's tale".
(d) He wants to hear "A Tale of Two Cities".

4. How does Xeones return to life from the grave?
(a) He is given an elixir of immortality.
(b) The Fate Clotho weaves his thread back into the pattern of life.
(c) His spirit roams the battlefield until eventually settling back into his body.
(d) Apollo returns him to life.

5. Why do the Spartans use that method to count their dead?
(a) It is an ancient tradition that has been passed down for generations.
(b) It is the Spartan law that the dead be counted in such a way.
(c) It helps to keep their minds occupied and off of the fact that only moments earlier they were slaughtering men like farmers reaping wheat.
(d) It is done to confuse the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xeones become in the Spartan army?

2. Where is Rooster's mother's city?

3. What are the names of the two dogs that Xeones and Diomache find?

4. Why is Xerxes warned about the story of the Spartans?

5. What do the Spartans call their science of fear discipline?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the outcome of the battle?

2. Why does Xeones refuse to continue with the story? What happens that causes him to continue?

3. What happens to Xeones after his city is burned?

4. Why do the Spartans punish their young boys by whipping them?

5. Why does Diomache feel that no one will want to marry her?

6. Describe the Spartan games.

7. How does Xeones describe the Spartan view on war?

8. Describe the relationship between Alexandros and Xeones.

9. Why does Xerxes want to hear about the Spartans?

10. What is a helot?

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