Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography Test | Final Test - Easy

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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alexander learn from a messenger on his way to Sousa?
(a) Philoxenus had failed to capture Sousa, and was routed.
(b) Darius had regathered his forces there.
(c) Sousa had already fallen to Philoxenus.
(d) His mother had fallen gravely ill.

2. What order did Alexander give when his army reached Persepolis?
(a) He was accepted peacefully, and there was no bloodshed or plundering.
(b) He left the city to his generals, who failed to capture it.
(c) He allowed his army to sack the city and kill all males.
(d) He went around the city, avoiding it.

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

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

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

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

7. Persepolis was the burial place of whom?
(a) Athenian senators.
(b) Alexander's mother.
(c) Achaemenid kings.
(d) Macedonian kings.

8. How did Alexander respond to Darius' death?
(a) He systematically burned all villages to which he came.
(b) He abandoned his campaign further east, since he had accomplished his ultimate goal.
(c) He felt his only option was to present himself as Darius' choice for successor.
(d) He pretended that Darius was still alive for political reasons.

9. Why did Alexander ultimately stop his push eastward into Arabia?
(a) His mutinous troops forced him to stop.
(b) He wished to settle down and raise a family with Roxanne.
(c) He was told by prophets that further movement would end in disaster.
(d) He became frightened, because legend told of an end to the world.

10. On his march to Pakistan, in what way did Alexander's land-bound troops suffer?
(a) They lacked food and water.
(b) They suffered from bubonic plague.
(c) They suffered from scurvy.
(d) They were constantly harassed by bandits.

11. Roxanne was the daughter to which baron?
(a) Spitamenas.
(b) Kandahar.
(c) Nazibarzanes.
(d) Oxyartes.

12. What strategy did Alexander use to defeat the Indian army?
(a) He had the leader assassinated.
(b) He used only his most veteran warriors.
(c) He divided his army.
(d) He used complex siege tactics with catapults and trebuchets.

13. Who appeared to Alexander in December 325 BC to inform him of the status of his fleet at Hormoz?
(a) Hephaestion.
(b) Neorchus.
(c) Oxyartes.
(d) Harpalus.

14. What title was given to Alexander after the battle of Gaugamela?
(a) Lord of Asia.
(b) King of the Gaugamelites.
(c) Pharaoh of Egypt.
(d) King of the World.

15. At the battle of the Chenab citadel, what rumor gained popularity?
(a) Alexander was dead.
(b) Zeus had visited Alexander in his tent.
(c) Alexander was broke, and had no way to pay the army.
(d) Bessus had escaped execution and now threatened Alexander's army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the Indian army that opposed Alexander in India?

2. After Darius was deposed, what title was bestowed upon Bessus?

3. What did Antipater believe about Alexander's claims to divinity?

4. What was the ratio of Persians to Macedonians at Gaugamela?

5. What battle is said to be Alexander's greatest strategic triumph?

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