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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which BEST characterizes the environment in which Alexander as a child was brought up?
(a) A peasant life of hard work in the fields.
(b) A male-dominated world of feasts and professional soldiers.
(c) A female-dominated world of waiting women and artists.
(d) A quiet life involving religious contemplation.

2. What important battle took place in August 338?
(a) The battle of Chaeronaea.
(b) The battle of Thebes.
(c) The battle of Jhelum River.
(d) The battle of Peloponnesia.

3. In which year did the Persians capture Sidon from the Greeks?
(a) 114 AD.
(b) 345 BC.
(c) 785 BC.
(d) 202 BC.

4. What was the ultimate result of the uprising of Thebes in 335 BC?
(a) Thebes' citizens were massacred, but the city was left as a fortress.
(b) Thebes' brokered a peace and became part of Alexander's kingdom.
(c) Thebes' citizens were massacred and the city was burned to the ground.
(d) The city was burned to the ground, but Alexander spared all its citizens.

5. During the uprising of 335 BC, on what condition did Alexander offer Thebes amnesty?
(a) He demanded that the leaders of the revolt surrender.
(b) He demanded that all the men of Thebes be imprisoned.
(c) He demanded all of the city's gold reserves.
(d) He demanded all religious iconography in the city to be destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Philip's fifth wife?

2. In the summer of 939, with what threat did Philip have to contend?

3. Why was Philip interested in the region of Mt. Pangaeus?

4. How could Macedonia be characterized prior to Philip's rule?

5. Where was Alexander the Great born?

(see the answer key)

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