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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. What is the purpose of the speech Leonidas gives after this battle?

2. Why does Xeones go out into a snowstorm to freeze to death?

3. Who does Diomache take with her?

4. Why is Xerxes warned about the story of the Spartans?

5. Thermopylae is described as what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the Spartans realize that the boys followed them, what is the punishment that Xeones must endure?

3. How does Xeones come to follow the Spartan army when they march out to war?

4. What happens to Xeones after his city is burned?

5. Who is Bruxieus?

6. Describe the Spartan games.

7. Why does Xerxes want to hear about the Spartans?

8. How do the Spartans count their dead?

9. Who catches Alexandros not using his shield properly? What happens?

10. Why do the Spartans punish their young boys by whipping them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. In ancient Sparta, as well as today, soldiers are trained by simulating real battle conditions. During these training exercises, soldiers can undergo severe physical and mental stress, and can actually die from the training, or in training accidents. What other disadvantages might there be to of such training methods? What are the benefits?

2. How are the training methods of the ancient Spartans like the methods used my most of the world today? How are they different?

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

After seeing what losses he takes fighting the Spartans, Xerxes almost leaves Greece and abandons his campaign. How is he persuaded to remain? What emotion drives him to stay? Is Xerxes in control of his own emotions here? Explain your answer.

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