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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 to fight with valor, and die a warrior's death.
(c) He tells them that they should desert and return home, because the Spartans would be overrun by the next day.
(d) He tells them that he knows of a way to get a dozen men to the tent of the Persian king.

2. When does Xeones see Xerxes face-to-face before he is summoned?
(a) He sees Xerxes in battle.
(b) He is a member of the raiding party that attempts to kill Xerxes in his tent.
(c) He sees Xerxes in the Persian court while traveling as a child.
(d) He sees Xerxes in a dream of prophesy.

3. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?
(a) He shows Xerxes the place where his blade tore the wall of the tent in a back corner.
(b) He recognizes the officer who threw the axe at him and wounded Alexandros.
(c) He can offer only his word of honor that he is telling the truth.
(d) He has several witnesses who admit that they saw him there.

4. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him that she has been in love with him for years.
(b) She tells him that the son of Rooster really was Dienekes' child.
(c) She tells him that she has been having an affair with Leonidas for years.
(d) She tells him that she had been in love with Dienekes e since she was a young girl, even while married to his brother.

5. What is the original total number of troops that would leave for Thermopylae?
(a) There are two million.
(b) There are three hundred.
(c) There are twenty thousand.
(d) There are three thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?

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

3. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?

4. How do the Persian forces surround the Greeks?

5. After some of the helots and Thespians leave, about how many are left in the Greek forces?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why do the Spartans decide to send only 300 men?

6. What does Arete offer Xeones? What is Xeones' response?

7. What occurs at Thermopylae during the wait for the Persians?

8. How is the 300 man force composed?

9. Why does Xerxes trust Xeones?

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

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