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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. What is the purpose of the speech Leonidas gives after this battle?
(a) He berates them for their lack of courage and for their weakness.
(b) He congratulates them on the victory, and commends their behavior towards the prisoners.
(c) He congratulates them on their great victory and releases them for a day to pillage the city.
(d) He thanks the survivors and honors the fallen, while refocusing their attention on the main battle to come.

2. Why do the Antirhions lose the battle?
(a) They lack the advanced weaponry of the Spartans.
(b) They are far outnumbered by the Spartans.
(c) There are traitors in the line.
(d) They allow fear to take control.

3. What is Hermion's nickname?
(a) He is called The Archer.
(b) He is called Pretty Boy.
(c) He is called Mountain.
(d) He is called Rooster.

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

5. What causes Xeones to continue the story?
(a) Xerxes told him that he would kill him if he did not continue.
(b) Dmaratos, a deposed Spartan king, reminds him of his duty to Apollo.
(c) Xeones decides to finish the story.
(d) Dmaratos, a cruel Persian soldier, threatened to beat him if he did not continue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dienekes' squire?

2. By what warrior code are young Spartans raised?

3. Who are the two narrators of this story?

4. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story behind Dienekes and Arete?

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

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

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

5. How do Alexandros and Xeones get across the Gulf of Corinth when following the army?

6. Describe the Spartan games.

7. What does the lady Arete reveal to Xeones?

8. Who is Bruxieus?

9. Why is Xeones depressed? What happens?

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

(see the answer keys)

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