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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. When does Darius of Persia die?
(a) He dies three years after the battle at Antirhion.
(b) He dies during the battle at Antirhion.
(c) He dies three years before the battle at Antirhion.
(d) He dies on the Ides of March.

2. What does Rooster suggest to Xeones and Alexandros?
(a) He tells them to fight with valor, and die a warrior's death.
(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 that they should abandon the army and join the Persians, just like him.

3. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?
(a) It is better to die free than live a slave.
(b) If under compulsion you must fight us your brothers, fight badly.
(c) You have no choice. You are forgiven.
(d) You are traitors. May the gods curse you all.

4. 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.

5. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?
(a) They are at the Three-Cornered Way in Attika.
(b) They are in the hills outside of Thessaly.
(c) They are a few miles outside of Sparta.
(d) They are just leaving Thermopylae.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Athenians call the high part of the city?

2. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?

3. How many men make up the party that attacks Xerxes' tent?

4. Why does Medon take the baby after the Peers all go home?

5. Why does Leonidas include inexperienced soldiers in the three hundred?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the plan to assault Xerxes in his own tent.

2. What kinds of items do the Spartan soldiers carry with them?

3. What causes Xerxes to decide to stay in Greece and complete his campaign?

4. Describe the fight between Medes and Greeks.

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

6. Explain what the author means when he calls the 300 an all-sire unit.

7. What happens when the Greeks enter the tent of Xerxes that ultimately saves his life?

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

9. How is Rooster spared and why?

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

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