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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. Where are the Persians as Chapter 18 opens?

2. What is Olympieus doing when he is killed by an arrow?

3. What does Rooster suggest to Xeones and Alexandros?

4. What is Xeones' proof that he was there, and not that he simply heard of it?

5. After some of the helots and Thespians leave, about how many are left in the Greek forces?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the fight between Medes and Greeks.

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

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

9. Why does Arete claim the child of Rooster is really the child of her husband Dienekes? What unforeseen effect does this have?

10. How is Rooster spared and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Xeones denounces Xerxes as a poor king. Why does Xoenes feel that Xerxes is a poor king? How does Xeones describe a good king? In your own words, describe Xerxes as a king, and tell whether you think he is a good king or not, and why.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In ancient Greece, just like many other ancient civilizations, crimes were punished much more severely than they are now. Many crimes involving stealing would result in losing a hand, or having the hands crippled. Have students write an essay answering the following questions:

1. What are these kinds of punishments no longer in use? What caused them to be discontinued in the Western world?

2. Are these kinds of punishments still in use today? If they are, then where, and why?

3. Do you feel that capital and corporal punishment is appropriate punishment for most crimes? Why or why not?

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