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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 do the Spartans encounter on their way out of the Persian camp?
(a) They do not encounter anyone on their flight from the Persian camp.
(b) They run into another group of Egyptian marines.
(c) They come across Persian soldiers rising for the morning.
(d) They are seen by General Mardonius.

2. What does Dienekes order Xeones to do?
(a) He orders Xeones to deliver a message for him.
(b) He orders Xeones to stay back and observe, so that he may tell the story later.
(c) He orders Xeones to fight valiantly.
(d) He orders Xeones to run.

3. Other than Ball Player and the dog, who is the other volunteer?
(a) The other volunteer is Olaph, the wandering Arab.
(b) He is a merchant from Miletus, and his name is Elephantinos.
(c) Tommie the Egyptian joined the Greeks.
(d) The other volunteer is Minoas, a traitor from the Persian army.

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

5. Why do the Phokians miss the meeting?
(a) They are nearly overrun by the Persians, so they flee.
(b) They have all been slain by the Persians.
(c) They go over to the Persian side.
(d) They are attacked and must remain to defend their city.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rooster originally feel about Alexandros?

2. What do the Spartans and their allies do when they see the Persians for the first time?

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?

4. What do the Athenians call the high part of the city?

5. What is the reason that Xerxes comes to Greece?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kind of force arrives at Thermopylae to meet the Persians?

4. How is the 300 man force composed?

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

6. What causes Xerxes to decide to stay in Greece and complete his campaign?

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

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

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

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

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