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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter one, "Alexander the Great and Heroic Leadership," begins with Keegan comparing Alexander to Napoleon, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Prince Charles, Hitler and others. Does the author believe any of these leaders can compare to Alexander the Great?
(a) Yes, all of them.
(b) Yes, some of them.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, one of them.

2. The spears were ________________ feet long and quite heavy; therefore, they were not used in battle per se, although they might be seen on the periphery.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

3. What type of leader was Hitler?
(a) A false heroic leader.
(b) A heroic leader.
(c) An anti-heroic leader.
(d) An un-heroic leader.

4. At age ___________, Alexander went to war under Philip's command for the first time.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twenty.

5. In ____________, Wellington was awarded with the Order of the Garter as well as a field marshal's baton.
(a) 1813.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1818.

Short Answer Questions

1. Included in Chapter Five are several photos and renderings of Grant, including a portrait and whose surrender at Vicksburg?

2. This is when a leader persuades his troops into believing he understands and cares for them.

3. Keegan goes into detail about Grant's habits and methods as what?

4. 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?

5. Philip had been married _________ times by the time he married OIympias and would marry another three times afterward, casting Olympias and the other wives aside as he tired of them.

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