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

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

3. According to Xerxes, what is the greatest desire of Xeones?
(a) His greatest desire is to rejoin his brothers in arms beneath the earth in death.
(b) He only wants to kill Xerxes, even at the cost of his own life.
(c) His top priority is to escape Xerxes and return to Sparta with the intelligence that he has picked up in the Persian camp.
(d) His desire to tell the story is greater than any other.

4. Who throws an axe at Xeones and cuts Alexandros' wrist during the tent raid?
(a) It is the lady Artemisia.
(b) It is the Persian general Mardonius.
(c) It is the traitor, Rooster.
(d) It is king Xerxes.

5. Who makes up the only father-son pair in the three hundred?
(a) Leonidas and Karneius are the only father-son pair.
(b) Olympieus and Alexandros are the only father-son pair.
(c) Medan and Xeones are the only father-son pair.
(d) Dienekes and Rooster are the only father-son pair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Persians are in the advance force that takes Athens?

2. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?

3. What can Xeones see toward the middle gate?

4. What is the standing order of Dienekes while on campaign?

5. What does Leonidas say is the tell-all when battle comes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

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

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

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

7. How is Rooster spared and why?

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

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

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

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