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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. Olympias and Philip were a good match - passionate, loving, and committed by _____________________.
(a) Choice and an arranged marriage.
(b) An arranged marriage, not by choice.
(c) Mutual hatred of the Persian emperor.
(d) Choice, not by an arranged marriage.

2. To what did the French set fire?
(a) A textiles plant.
(b) A barn.
(c) A large business.
(d) A chateau.

3. Alexander paid a visit to the Oracle and it was said that the Oracle referred to Alexander as the son of whom?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Philip.
(d) Zeus.

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

5. Unlike ________________, Wellington rode alongside his men as they charged into battle.
(a) Alexander.
(b) Attila the Hun.
(c) Grant.
(d) Napoleon.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When ______________, Grant's colleague and friend, approached with the same thoughts of surrender, Grant's demeanor immediately showed his determination.

3. In Alexander's day, many men made their living by performing as what?

4. 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?

5. Keegan compares West Point to the British ____________________ located in Woolwich and France's École de Génie at Mezières.

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