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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 the Oracle tell the Spartans?
(a) They will not lose a single officer, and the city will stand.
(b) They will lose a king, and then the city will fall.
(c) They will either lose a king, or the city will fall.
(d) They will lose many soldiers, but they will win the fight.

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

3. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?
(a) It is the Persian general Mardonius.
(b) It is the traitor, Rooster.
(c) It is the lady Artemisia.
(d) It is king Xerxes.

4. How does Arete convince the Peers to spare the child of Rooster?
(a) She kidnaps the child and flees Sparta.
(b) She convinces them that whatever the father might have done, it is no fault of the child's.
(c) She pays bribes to them to allow the child to go.
(d) She and her husband swear that the child is his, and not Rooster's.

5. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?
(a) He is writing in his journal.
(b) He is sharpening his sword blade.
(c) He is fighting on the field of battle.
(d) He is sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Leonidas leave for Greeks who are conscripted into service to the Persians?

2. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?

3. What is the purpose of an all-sire unit?

4. Who does Xeones list off as some of the members of the tent raiding party?

5. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Rooster spared and why?

3. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

4. Describe the fight between Medes and Greeks.

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

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

7. What happens when Leonidas frees the helots on the last day of battle?

8. What main advantage do the Spartans have over the Persians?

9. Why does Xerxes trust Xeones?

10. What factors push the Spartans into a decisive battle with the Persians?

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