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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 is Rooster related to Dienekes?
(a) Rooster is his brother's bastard son.
(b) Rooster is his son.
(c) Rooster is not related to Dienekes.
(d) Rooster is his friend.

2. Who do the Spartans encounter on their way out of the Persian camp?
(a) They are seen by General Mardonius.
(b) They do not encounter anyone on their flight from the Persian camp.
(c) They run into another group of Egyptian marines.
(d) They come across Persian soldiers rising for the morning.

3. Who are the non-Spartan members of the raiding party?
(a) They are Rooster and Tommie.
(b) They are Tommie and Dithyrambos.
(c) They are Dithyrambos and Doreion.
(d) They are Rooster and Ball Player.

4. What is mothax?
(a) It is freedom from taxes.
(b) It is the highest title of honor for Spartans.
(c) It is a golden metal awarded for valor.
(d) It is the grade of warrior youths somewhere between full citizen and helot.

5. Who does Xeones marry?
(a) He marries Diomache.
(b) He marries Agathe.
(c) He marries arete.
(d) He marries Thereia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?

2. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?

3. In Chapter 28, which Persian deserter asks for Xeones by name?

4. What do the Spartans and their allies do when they see the Persians for the first time?

5. What nation is the second to assault the Greeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Rooster returns to the Greeks on the second day of battle?

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

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

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

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

6. How is the 300 man force composed?

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

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

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

10. Describe the first day of battle.

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