2. What initially prevented Alexander from pursuing Bessus after Alexander executed Parmenio?
(a) Alexander had to subdue revolts in the southern satrapies.
(b) Alexander had to seek out an oracle for divine advice.
(c) Alexander had to travel back to Ionia to quell a rebellion.
(d) Alexander fell ill, and stopped to recover.

3. What role did Alexander envision his Successors would have?
(a) They would be officers in his army.
(b) They would battle to become king after he died.
(c) They would travel back to Athens to teach philosophy and science.
(d) They would be mayors of the various cities he conquered.

4. Who did Alexander send to Sousa after leaving Gaugamela?
(a) Philip.
(b) Philoxenus.
(c) Pelium.
(d) Parmenio.

5. What strategy did Alexander take in regards to Ambphi?
(a) He was nice and generous, as he needed their help.
(b) He crushed the city in a massacre.
(c) He recruited all the men of Ambphi into his army.
(d) He skipped the city over, for larger conquests.

6. Who did Alexander marry in a ceremony at Susa?
(a) Seven wives, one for each of the local Indian satraps.
(b) One wife, the daughter of Antipater.
(c) Two wives, one the daughter of Darius.
(d) Three wives, one the daughter of Olympias.

7. After Persepolis, to what city did Alexander travel?
(a) Pella.
(b) Jhelum.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Ecbatana.

8. Why did Alexander encourage his men to marry in Persia?
(a) Alexander thought Persian women were extraordinarily beautiful.
(b) Alexander had a belief that sexual energy in his men was bad for combat.
(c) Alexander believed this would help the men miss their families less.
(d) Alexander believed that Zeus himself had given the order to him.

9. On what island did Alexander build the city of Alexandria?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Tyre.
(c) Ionia.
(d) Pharos.

10. In February 324 BC, Alexander arrived in which territory?
(a) The Indian Ocean.
(b) Macedonia.
(c) Hindu Kush.
(d) Susa.

11. Why was Darius murdered?
(a) Darius was murdered in a ransom gone wrong.
(b) Darius was murdered so that Alexander could not capture him and have an orderly succession.
(c) Darius was murdered in a fit of blind rage.
(d) Darius was murdered by the citizens of Persepolis as revenge for the city's sacking.

12. In which Egyptian city was Alexander proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt?
(a) Pelusium.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Gaza.
(d) Memphis.

13. How did Bessus die?
(a) He was publicly tried and executed.
(b) Alexander beheaded him.
(c) He died of an arrow wound.
(d) His men mutinied and murdered him.

14. Who led a coup that resulted in Darius losing his crown?
(a) Bessus and Nabarzanes.
(b) Bessus only.
(c) Bessus and Satibarzanes.
(d) Nabarzanes only.

15. Who apprehended Bessus?
(a) Spitamenas and Soghdian barons.
(b) Darius' former personal bodyguards.
(c) Alexander.
(d) A group of the Successors.