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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. Who stands to defend Athens during the Persian attack?
(a) Athens is defended by the Spartans.
(b) Athens is defended by the full Athenian legions.
(c) Athens is completely abandoned.
(d) Athens is defended by a small band of fanatics only.

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

3. The three hundred and their allies are to be met by a thousand heavy infantry from Phokis and Lokris. What do they find instead?
(a) They find only half of the troop they were expecting.
(b) They find the Egyptian Tommie.
(c) They find the Persians waiting there for them.
(d) They find the area abandoned with the exception of a few local people.

4. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?
(a) He comes to avenge the death of his father.
(b) He comes to conquer the land for natural resources.
(c) He comes to plunder the riches of Greece.
(d) He comes to have the Greek submit to him, and to have them offer him earth and water.

5. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?
(a) The wooden wall alone shall not fail you.
(b) Only with the Spartans may you defeat the enemy.
(c) The enemy will overrun and destroy you.
(d) Fly to the corners of the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of an all-sire unit?

2. What oath does Alexandros swear the night of Rooster's trial?

3. When does Darius of Persia die?

4. Who appears to Diomache in a dream after she aborted her pregnancy and was ill?

5. What oath does Arete swear to Xeones?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the 300 man force composed?

2. Describe the fight between Medes and Greeks.

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Leonidas frees the helots on the last day of battle?

8. Describe the first day of battle.

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

10. Describe the plan to assault Xerxes in his own tent.

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