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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 do the Athenians call the high part of the city?

2. How many men make up the party that attacks Xerxes' tent?

3. How does Leonidas appear to Xerxes in his dream?

4. Who stands to defend Athens during the Persian attack?

5. What does Dienekes decide that the opposite of fear is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Xerxes trust Xeones?

4. What main advantage do the Spartans have over the Persians?

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

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

7. Describe what the Persians do to the body of the Spartan king, Leonidas.

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

9. Explain what the author means when he calls the 300 an all-sire unit.

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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