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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 nation is the second to assault the Greeks?
(a) The Medes are the second group sent by the Persians.
(b) The Egyptians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(c) The Armenians are the second group sent by the Persians.
(d) The Sacae are the second group sent by the Persians.

2. What drives Polynikes according to Dienekes?
(a) Polynikes is driven by his bloodlust.
(b) Polynikes is driven the fear of dishonor.
(c) Polynikes has true andreia.
(d) Polynikes is driven by the greed for glory.

3. What is the standing order of Dienekes while on campaign?
(a) Dienekes is to be awakened about mid-day.
(b) Dienekes is to be awakened with the dawn.
(c) Dienekes is to be awakened two hours before sunrise.
(d) Dienekes is to be allowed to sleep until he wakes on his own.

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

5. Once the Spartans make their discovery, what do they do about it?
(a) They abandon their mission.
(b) They split into two teams, and pursue both the mission and the new discovery.
(c) They ignore it and continue with the mission.
(d) They send Telamonias back to report to Leonidas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing that Xerxes says to Xeones as Chapter 19 closes?

2. What happens to the raiding party?

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

4. Knowing that everyone will die the next day, what does Leonidas tell his men?

5. How many children does Xeones father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is the 300 man force composed?

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