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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. 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?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Homer.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Socrates.

2. The Macedonian army was different from that of the _______________ in that it was essentially a militia in which the citizens had the right to bear arms.
(a) Americans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Romans.
(d) Persians.

3. How much did Wellington leave to chance?
(a) Some small details.
(b) Almost everything.
(c) Nothing.
(d) All aspects of battle.

4. Alexander could, however, claim an abundance of natural resources, livestock, grains, and fertile lands. The latter was due in part to what?
(a) Intelligent farming.
(b) Fertile soil.
(c) Good elevation.
(d) The irrigation system installed by Philip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexander had a select infantry known as _______________, whose main job it was to surround and protect Alexander.

2. The French were determined to throw a web of alliances over the principalities as a sign of allegiance to whom?

3. What staff training existed in Wellington's day?

4. 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?

5. Alexander developed a reverence for what Greek god?

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