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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. Why do the Lokrians not make the meeting?
(a) They turned to the Persian side.
(b) They got the time wrong, as the months have different names than in Sparta.
(c) They were afraid of the Persians, and fled.
(d) They were already defeated.

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

3. For what valor in battle is Rooster offered new status as mothax?
(a) He defeats an armed Persian with his bare hands.
(b) He rescues Olympieus.
(c) He captures an enemy officer.
(d) He breaks the Persian line.

4. What do the Athenians call the high part of the city?
(a) They call it the Acropolis.
(b) They call it The Mound.
(c) They call it the royal compound.
(d) They call it The Great Hill.

5. How many children does Xeones father?
(a) He only has one child, a son.
(b) He has two sons.
(c) He has a son and a daughter.
(d) He has two daughters.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Lady Arete's letter to Diomache say?

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

5. What does the Oracle tell the Spartans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the fight between Medes and Greeks.

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

5. Describe the first day of battle.

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

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

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

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

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

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