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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 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 that he knows of a way to get a dozen men to the tent of the Persian king.
(d) He tells them to fight with valor, and die a warrior's death.

2. 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) 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.
(c) The Persians have no hope of taking Greece without their king.
(d) 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.

3. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?
(a) There are several thousand.
(b) There are fifty thousand men.
(c) There are twenty thousand.
(d) There are only three hundred.

4. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?
(a) They find the Egyptian Tommie.
(b) They find the Persians waiting there for them.
(c) They find the area abandoned with the exception of a few local people.
(d) They find only half of the troop they were expecting.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Xeones marry?

2. How does Leonidas appear to Xerxes in his dream?

3. In Chapter 29, what does Xeones say is the only thing a man really wants?

4. What is mothax?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Persian soldiers not hinder the Greeks in their escape?

2. Describe the first day of battle.

3. How is Rooster spared and why?

4. Where has Xeones seen Xerxes before he is brought into his tent?

5. What kind of force arrives at Thermopylae to meet the Persians?

6. Why does Arete claim the child of Rooster is really the child of her husband Dienekes? What unforeseen effect does this have?

7. Describe what the Persians do to the body of the Spartan king, Leonidas.

8. Describe the Medes who first entered battle with the Greeks.

9. Why do the Spartans want to kill Rooster and his infant son?

10. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

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