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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 does Dienekes tell the Egyptian about freedom?

2. How many sons has Arete born Dienekes?

3. How does Polynikes react to Alexandros' answer?

4. Who were the first soldiers to arrive at Thermopylae?

5. How do the Spartans view war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Spartan line formation.

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

3. How does Xeones begin his story?

4. What is the story behind Dienekes and Arete?

5. Describe the battlefield at Antirhion.

6. How do the Spartans count their dead?

7. Describe the Spartan games.

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

9. What does the lady Arete reveal to Xeones?

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 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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What causes Leonidas to offer freedom to the helots, and allow anyone who does not want to stand and die the opportunity to leave? Why do he and his men remain to fight the Persians, knowing that they will die? What are some reasons that so many of them leave? Does leaving the field of battle, knowing that they can not win and will die, make all of the men who leave cowards? Explain your answer.

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