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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 happens to the raiding party that saves the life of Xerxes?
(a) Some exotic birds escape their cages and confuse the Spartans.
(b) One of the members of the raiding party trips and makes enough noise in his fall to alert the Persians.
(c) One of Xerxes' officers stumbles upon the raiding party as they are entering the tent.
(d) They go to the wrong tent at first, and have to go back.

2. Why do the Phokians miss the meeting?
(a) They are attacked and must remain to defend their city.
(b) They are nearly overrun by the Persians, so they flee.
(c) They go over to the Persian side.
(d) They have all been slain by the Persians.

3. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?
(a) He is absolved of his crime.
(b) He is exiled and sent to the Persians.
(c) He is slain by the krypteia.
(d) He is beaten with wooden rods.

4. What does Lady Arete's letter to Diomache say?
(a) The letter is a personal letter between old friends.
(b) The letter says that Xeones is free from his service and may marry Diomache.
(c) The letter says that Xeones' death will be honored.
(d) The letter is to free Diomache from her service at the temple.

5. Who comes for Rooster after he turns down the offer of mothax?
(a) No one comes for him.
(b) Polynikes and four assassins of the krypteia came for him.
(c) Twenty Peers come for him.
(d) The royal guard came for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who vouches for Xeones that he did not overhear details of the raid from the surgeons?

2. What is mothax?

3. What does the merchant's sign say?

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

5. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Rooster spared and why?

5. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

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

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

8. Why does Xerxes not want to face the Spartans in Sparta?

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

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

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