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

2. The most important battle of Wellington's life would turn out to be the __________ day battle at Waterloo.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. 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?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. Keegan compares Alexander to whom?
(a) MacArthur.
(b) MacMillon.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Patton.

5. Even with _________________ soldiers, Darius was unable to outsmart Alexander, who perfectly executed a plan to attack Darius from the rear rather than wait to face the ruler head on at Cilicia.
(a) 14,000.
(b) 140,000.
(c) 1,400,000.
(d) 1,400.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alexander was the __________________ son of Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias.

2. 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.

3. What ideas of Wellington impressed Castlereagh?

4. Alexander could, however, claim an abundance of natural resources, livestock, grains, and fertile lands. The latter was due in part to what?

5. 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 _______________.

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