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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexander had a select infantry known as _______________, whose main job it was to surround and protect Alexander.
(a) The Elite.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) The Body Guards.
(d) The Shield Bearers.

2. The ___________________ love drama and the theatre.
(a) Russians.
(b) Persians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Macedonians.

3. Alexander paid a visit to the Oracle and it was said that the Oracle referred to Alexander as the son of whom?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Philip.
(d) Poseidon.

4. Why did many of the other soldiers view Wellington with some jealousy?
(a) He was the son of a duke.
(b) He was the king's nephew.
(c) He was the son of a marginal lord.
(d) He was very wealthy.

5. Wellington so impressed Castlereagh that the thirty-seven-year-old soldier was soon a trusted confidant and advisor on one military scheme after another. One of those schemes included keeping an eye on whose activities?
(a) George Washington's.
(b) Kaiser Wilhelm.
(c) Napoleon's.
(d) King Richard's.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Philip died, it was clear that it was Alexander's time to assume power at the tender age of ___________.

2. When did Wellington come alive in his military career?

3. Throughout Alexander's childhood, the boy was well educated in many areas suitable to a young royal. Alexander's education included learning to sing and play the lyre, hunt, ride, and to debate, and to appreciate epic poetry, mostly as it related to whom?

4. Once Wellington took the reins, he had participated in an average of how many battles per year, not counting the years taken off during peacetime or tending to other duties?

5. There is not much mention of Philip taking part in Alexander's life until the boy was about age ______________.

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