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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Wellington dress when going into battle?
(a) Like a civilian.
(b) Like a commanding officer.
(c) Like a French commanding officer.
(d) Like an American soldier.

2. During the early morning hours, Wellington took time to write his dispatch, which would later appear in its entirety where?
(a) In the London Times.
(b) In the Paris Post.
(c) In the London Chronicle.
(d) In the New York Times.

3. There is not much mention of Philip taking part in Alexander's life until the boy was about age ______________.
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Five.

4. What ideas of Wellington impressed Castlereagh?
(a) Protecting Spain with naval power.
(b) Protecting Portugal with air power.
(c) Protecting France with naval power.
(d) Protecting Portugal with naval power.

5. What war did an uprising in Spain and Portugal against the French emperor later become?
(a) The Peninsular War.
(b) The English Civil War.
(c) The European War.
(d) The Spanish Civil War.

6. What was the name of Alexander's famous horse?
(a) Beast.
(b) Belle.
(c) Bucocrates.
(d) Bucephalas.

7. 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) Kaiser Wilhelm.
(b) Napoleon's.
(c) King Richard's.
(d) George Washington's.

8. Alexander often used __________ to the point of detriment.
(a) Guilt.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hatred.

9. When was Alexander born?
(a) July 356 BC.
(b) July 653 BC.
(c) July 365 BC.
(d) July 635 BC.

10. In Alexander's day, many men made their living by performing as what?
(a) Singers.
(b) Athletes.
(c) Orators.
(d) Dancers.

11. It is surmised that both Wellington and Napoleon, uniquely adept at grasping higher learning concepts, may have been exposed to a classical learning technique that involved the use of _______________.
(a) Flash cards.
(b) Technology.
(c) Tutors.
(d) Mnemonic devices.

12. Where did Wellington attend school?
(a) Eton.
(b) Yale.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Brighton.

13. 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) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

14. Awards and titles were also lavished on Wellington by whom?
(a) The French and the Italians.
(b) The Spanish and Portuguese.
(c) The French and the Spanish.
(d) The Portuguese and the French.

15. Keegan outlines Wellington's daily schedule, which included just __________ hours of sleep and supreme focus.
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) A couple of.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike ________________, Wellington rode alongside his men as they charged into battle.

2. Like many royals, Alexander had a tutor. Alexander's tutor of __________ years also happened to be a brilliant student of Plato's, a man named Aristotle.

3. Wellington had first witnessed warfare in _________ in Holland.

4. Wellington chose to make plans and do what?

5. The author states that the only things that saved Wellington from sure death were his superior riding skills and the presence of __________________, his prize steed.

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