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

2. When king Leonidas gives his speech on the night of the arrival of the Persian force, to whom is he speaking?
(a) He is speaking to the allied officers.
(b) He is speaking to the Spartan officers.
(c) He is speaking to the entire combined forces.
(d) He is speaking to all of the allied officers and the Spartan officers.

3. What secret does Arete tell Xeones in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him that she has been having an affair with Leonidas for years.
(b) She tells him that she had been in love with Dienekes e since she was a young girl, even while married to his brother.
(c) She tells him that she has been in love with him for years.
(d) She tells him that the son of Rooster really was Dienekes' child.

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

5. What punishment is actually dealt out to Rooster?
(a) He is beaten with wooden rods.
(b) He is exiled and sent to the Persians.
(c) He is absolved of his crime.
(d) He is slain by the krypteia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?

3. What does Dienekes order Xeones to do?

4. According to Xerxes, what is the greatest desire of Xeones?

5. What does the merchant's sign say?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Rooster spared and why?

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

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

5. What happens when the Greeks enter the tent of Xerxes that ultimately saves his life?

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

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

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

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

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

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