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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 was the name of Alexander's famous horse?
(a) Bucocrates.
(b) Bucephalas.
(c) Belle.
(d) Beast.

2. 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.
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

4. Why did many of the other soldiers view Wellington with some jealousy?
(a) He was very wealthy.
(b) He was the son of a marginal lord.
(c) He was the son of a duke.
(d) He was the king's nephew.

5. 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) No.
(c) Yes, some of them.
(d) Yes, one of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the biggest benefits of Wellington's scarce idle time is what?

2. Alexander developed a reverence for what Greek god?

3. There is not much mention of Philip taking part in Alexander's life until the boy was about age ______________.

4. Wellington had first witnessed warfare in _________ in Holland.

5. ___________________, a contemporary of Wellington's from Calcutta, described the man thus: "He was all life and spirits. In height he was about 5 feet 7 inches (in fact nearer 5 feet 10 inches) with a long pale face, a remarkably large aquiline nose, a clear blue eye and the blackest beard I ever saw" (p. 106).

(see the answer key)

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