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

2. It was ______ months later before Alexander and Darius met again.
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

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

4. The author states that the only things that saved Wellington from sure death were his superior riding skills and the presence of __________________, his prize steed.
(a) Stockholm.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Paris.
(d) Copenhagen.

5. The Macedonian army was different from that of the _______________ in that it was essentially a militia in which the citizens had the right to bear arms.
(a) Persians.
(b) Americans.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Romans.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 3:00 on Sunday the __________, the battle at Waterloo was in full swing.

2. It was Grant's ____________________ that let people know he was a commander.

3. ___________________, a contemporary of Wellington's from Calcutta, described the man thus: "He was all life and spirits. In height he was about 5 feet 7 inches (in fact nearer 5 feet 10 inches) with a long pale face, a remarkably large aquiline nose, a clear blue eye and the blackest beard I ever saw" (p. 106).

4. Where did Wellington attend school?

5. Keegan compares Alexander to whom?

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