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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 140,000.
(b) 1,400,000.
(c) 14,000.
(d) 1,400.

2. Chapter seven, "Grant the Fighter", recalls what?
(a) Grant's strong approach to battle.
(b) Grant's quiet approach to battle.
(c) Grant's unchanging approach to battle.
(d) Grant's unique approach to battle.

3. When ______________, Grant's colleague and friend, approached with the same thoughts of surrender, Grant's demeanor immediately showed his determination.
(a) Sherman.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Lee.

4. Lincoln recognized what in Grant?
(a) His fortitude.
(b) His will.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His skill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To be a successful leader, Keegan argues, a commander must master what?

2. 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?

3. Why did Grant did not approve of the tactics used regarding the Rio Grande venture?

4. According to Keegan, were all the leaders discussed earlier in this book heroic or unheroic?

5. In a nuclear age, the consequences are ______________.

(see the answer key)

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