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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurred in the siege of Halicarnassus?
(a) The Persians took the city from Alexander, but Alexander had the city burned.
(b) Alexander was triumphant, killing Memnon and ending his Persian campaign.
(c) Alexander took the city from the Persians, but the Persians set fire to most of the city.
(d) The Persians were defeated, but they scored an important victory in destroying Alexander's naval power.

2. What was the name of Philip's fifth wife?
(a) Helen.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Sharonia.
(d) Olympias.

3. How could Macedonia be characterized prior to Philip's rule?
(a) Warlike and imperial.
(b) Mystical and feared.
(c) Weak and insignificant.
(d) Peaceful and powerful.

4. What is the name of the sea east of the Greek mainland?
(a) Black.
(b) Caspian.
(c) Aegean.
(d) Ionian.

5. What city state did Alexander attack in 336 BC as he pushed toward the Danube River?
(a) Macedonia.
(b) Thrace.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Persia.

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

7. Which BEST characterizes Olympias' relationship with Alexander?
(a) The two were very close.
(b) She feared him and felt terrorized by him.
(c) She never knew Alexander.
(d) She envied and hated Alexander.

8. In what year was the battle of Pelium fought?
(a) 335 BC.
(b) 480 BC.
(c) 128 AD.
(d) 320 BC.

9. Which of the following BEST describes the final strategy Alexander used to enter Tyre?
(a) He starved its citizens into submission.
(b) He cast dead bodies over the walls, spreading contagion and forcing surrender.
(c) He used the front of a ship as a battering ram.
(d) He forced Tyrian ships to a north harbor, and breached the city wall from the south.

10. In what year was Alexander the Great born?
(a) 808 BC.
(b) 120 AD.
(c) 356 BC.
(d) 3 AD.

11. While in Gordium, what did Alexander take as a sign from Zeus to continue his campaign?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A calf born with two heads.
(c) A hawk landing on a statue of Zeus.
(d) A thunderstorm.

12. What made Tyre difficult to capture?
(a) It was located on an island, and had walls on the shores.
(b) Its army was exceedingly well trained.
(c) It received funding for warships from Demosthenes.
(d) Its citizens were violent religious zealots.

13. How did Darius respond to Alexander's successful siege of Tyre?
(a) He proposed another peace settlement.
(b) He tried to recapture the city.
(c) He relinquished the throne and fled.
(d) He captured the neighboring city of Sidon.

14. Which commander opposed Alexander at the battle of Granicus River?
(a) Darius.
(b) Demosthenes.
(c) Memnon.
(d) Parmenio.

15. What city did Alexander have built after the battle of Granicus?
(a) New Smyrna.
(b) Pamphylia.
(c) Memnon.
(d) Ephesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Philip's stance on Panhellenism?

2. Where was Alexander the Great born?

3. During the uprising of 335 BC, on what condition did Alexander offer Thebes amnesty?

4. What military strategy did Philip innovate in his battle with the Illyrians?

5. In which year did the Persians capture Sidon from the Greeks?

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