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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alexander had a select infantry known as _______________, whose main job it was to surround and protect Alexander.
(a) The Elite.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) The Body Guards.
(d) The Shield Bearers.

2. Where did Wellington attend school?
(a) Yale.
(b) Brighton.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Eton.

3. Alexander often used __________ to the point of detriment.
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Fear.

4. Alexander wanted to go after and slay Darius, but what happened?
(a) He was called away just long enough for the defeated ruler to escape.
(b) He was injured.
(c) Darius went into hiding.
(d) Darius escaped.

5. Keegan outlines Wellington's daily schedule, which included just __________ hours of sleep and supreme focus.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) A couple of.
(d) Six.

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

7. Alexander developed a reverence for what Greek god?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Dionysus.

8. The most important battle of Wellington's life would turn out to be the __________ day battle at Waterloo.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

10. 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?
(a) Homer.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Socrates.

11. Why did Olympias' and Philip's relationship fall apart?
(a) He was preoccupied with politics and war.
(b) Philip had lost all of his wealth.
(c) He had an affair.
(d) She fell in love with another man.

12. The first piece of news about Napoleon's attack on the Prussians reached Wellington while he was preparing to do what?
(a) Eat dinner.
(b) Plan an attack.
(c) Attend a ball.
(d) Go to sleep.

13. After Philip died, it was clear that it was Alexander's time to assume power at the tender age of ___________.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Sixteen.

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

15. How much did Wellington leave to chance?
(a) All aspects of battle.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Almost everything.
(d) Some small details.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. It is surmised that both Wellington and Napoleon, uniquely adept at grasping higher learning concepts, may have been exposed to a classical learning technique that involved the use of _______________.

3. Alexander paid a visit to the Oracle and it was said that the Oracle referred to Alexander as the son of whom?

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

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?

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