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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Spartans count their dead?

2. What happens to Xeones when he is caught stealing?

3. What is exoterike harmoniea?

4. What is the name of the city-state where Xeones is from?

5. Why does Diomache feel that no man will want her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Alexandros and Xeones get across the Gulf of Corinth when following the army?

2. Why does Polynikes seem to think that Spartans are better than any other men?

3. Why is Xeones depressed? What happens?

4. How do the Spartans count their dead?

5. What is the outcome of the battle?

6. How does Dienekes feel about Tommie's suggestion that Sparta join Persia by choice?

7. Why does Diomache feel that no one will want to marry her?

8. How does Xeones come to be in the Persian camp?

9. Why does the author jump from place to place in the story?

10. What is the concern of the lady Paraleio, Alexandros' mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do the women play in ancient Sparta? What rights and restrictions do they have? Compare and contrast the role of women in ancient Spartan culture to other warrior societies. Compare the role of women in ancient Sparta to the role of women in the modern world.

Essay Topic 2

What is an all-sire unit? Explain what it means to be an all-sire unit. What would it be like to be a member of one of these units? Compare the Spartan all-sire units with similar units of other civilizations and times.

Essay Topic 3

For the first day of the battle, the Greeks are able to fend off several attacks that, simply by the number of soldiers, should have crushed them. All the way to the bitter end, the Greeks are able to inflict great damage on the army of Persia. Describe the strategies used by the Greeks, from the first crossing of arms to the last.

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