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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 happens to the raiding party?

2. What does the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi tell the Athenians?

3. How many children does Xeones father?

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

5. What do the Spartans discover on their way to the tent of Xerxes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What factors push the Spartans into a decisive battle with the Persians?

3. Describe the first day of battle.

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

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

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

7. How is Rooster spared and why?

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

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

10. What disturbs Xerxes, the Persian king?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the battle at Thermopylae, several soldiers are caught trying to desert. Answer the following questions:

1. What reasons do the men give for desertion?

2. What reasons does Leonidas give for allowing the men to flee?

3. Why do some of the men beg to be allowed to return to duty after the speech that Leonidas gives?

4. How do the other men feel about those who desert? What do the other men want to do about it?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

By simply maintaining military discipline, the Spartans are able to defeat many enemies in battle who do not know discipline. Define discipline. Why is discipline so important on the battlefield? Is it equally important off the field? Why or why not?

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