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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. How old is Xeones when he flees the destruction of his home?
(a) He is eighteen.
(b) He is nine.
(c) He is in his middle teens.
(d) He is twelve.

2. What does Apollo tell Xeones about the spear in his vision?
(a) Apollo tells Xeones that the spear is an inelegant weapon.
(b) Apollo tells Xeones that the spear is a great weapon.
(c) Apollo tells Xeones that he will be killed by with a spear.
(d) Apollo tells Xeones that the spear will be the salvation of Sparta.

3. Why does Xeones refuse to narrate anymore?
(a) He learns that Xerxes is going to kill him after he completes his story.
(b) He grows bored with the work.
(c) He finds out about the mutilation of king Leonidas' body.
(d) He realizes that telling Xerxes of Spartan warfare is treason.

4. What does Dienekes tell Alexandros after Polynikes' lecture?
(a) He tells the boy that Polynikes is just full of hot air.
(b) He tells the boy that he will eventually outrank Polynikes anyways.
(c) He tells the boy that someday he'll be able to dish it right back in Polynikes' face.
(d) He tells the boy that he will never amount to anything.

5. According to Xeones, each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one what?
(a) Each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one helot.
(b) Each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one horse.
(c) Each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one Darning Needle.
(d) Each Spartan soldier goes into battle with at least one spear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Bruxieus tell Xeones and Diomache to go?

3. Who is Dienekes' squire?

4. Who is Xeones' sparring partner?

5. Why does Dienekes initially resist marrying Lady Arete?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Alexandros and Xeones.

2. How does Xeones come to follow the Spartan army when they march out to war?

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

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

5. How does Dienekes feel about Tommie's suggestion that Sparta join Persia by choice?

6. Why does Xerxes become impatient with Xeones?

7. What is the concern of the lady Paraleio, Alexandros' mother?

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

9. Describe the battlefield at Antirhion.

10. Why does the author jump from place to place in the story?

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