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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

2. At best, Grant's troops could evade and stall until help arrived from another Union battalion located _________ miles away, a distance that would take half a day to cover.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

3. It was shown that Grant realized his error pre-war when making the distinction between who?
(a) The man who volunteered to enlist and the man who served as a soldier during peacetime.
(b) The wealthy soldier and the poor soldier.
(c) The northerner and the southerner.
(d) The American soldier and the European soldier.

4. In three years, Grant would be _______________ in Chief of the Armies of the United States; within seven years, Grant would be inaugurated as the eighteenth president.
(a) General.
(b) Commander.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Major.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Olympias.

2. What technological advancement was important during the American Revolution, the Peninsular War, and at Waterloo? This proves that military progress is inevitable.

3. It was ______ months later before Alexander and Darius met again.

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. Olympias and Philip were a good match - passionate, loving, and committed by _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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