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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexander could, however, claim an abundance of natural resources, livestock, grains, and fertile lands. The latter was due in part to what?
(a) The irrigation system installed by Philip.
(b) Good elevation.
(c) Fertile soil.
(d) Intelligent farming.

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) Five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

3. Keegan outlines Hitler's strategies and includes pertinent information from various sources, including notes from a conference in ___________________.
(a) Munich.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Rastenburg.

4. The only surviving letter of Hitler's from World War I recounts an attack involving the 16th Bavarian Reserve in an attack at Ypres in what year?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1913.

5. Grant received a bit of notoriety after a stint where?
(a) Near the Mexican border.
(b) Along the Mississippi.
(c) In Europe.
(d) Out west.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Awards and titles were also lavished on Wellington by whom?

3. After Philip died, it was clear that it was Alexander's time to assume power at the tender age of ___________.

4. The author says, "Few today think of Hitler as a soldier. But it was as a soldier, quite as much as a politician or ____________ - the strangest of his delusions - that he thought of himself" (p. 235).

5. Where did Hitler spend much of his time during the war?

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