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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Go to sleep.
(c) Attend a ball.
(d) Plan an attack.

2. For how long did Alexander march?
(a) Five years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

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

4. In Alexander's day, many men made their living by performing as what?
(a) Orators.
(b) Singers.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Dancers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ___________________ love drama and the theatre.

2. 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?

3. Alexander developed a reverence for what Greek god?

4. One of Wellington's aims upon his return home was to help save ______________, who had fallen into scandal.

5. The author states that Alexander was deeply affected by two things during his childhood - his love of Homer's epic poetry and the extreme and eccentric beliefs of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Wellington's dress during a battle. Why might he have dressed this way?

2. Why might the author use the word "abstractedly" to describe Wellington?

3. How does Alexander look as he rides into battle? Why is this important?

4. How was Wellington rewarded for his military success? Why was he rewarded in this way?

5. What did Castlereagh think of Wellington? Why? How did this affect Wellington?

6. How was Wellington able to win the Battle of Waterloo? Could it have been won without him? Could it have been won without the aid of the Prussians? Why or why not?

7. What did Wellington do when the French set fire to the chateau at Hougomont? Why did he do this?

8. Why were other soldiers jealous of Wellington? Should they have been jealous? Why or why not?

9. To whom does Keegan compare Alexander the Great in Chapter One? What is the outcome of this comparison?

10. How was Alexander's melodramatic personality both a help and a hindrance?

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