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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. Awards and titles were also lavished on Wellington by whom?
(a) The Spanish and Portuguese.
(b) The Portuguese and the French.
(c) The French and the Spanish.
(d) The French and the Italians.

2. 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) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Homer.
(d) Sophocles.

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

4. Wellington had first witnessed warfare in _________ in Holland.
(a) 1497.
(b) 1479.
(c) 1749.
(d) 1794.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The French were determined to throw a web of alliances over the principalities as a sign of allegiance to whom?

2. What is the major difference between Wellington and Napoleon regarding battle?

3. 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?

4. ___________________, 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).

5. Wellington was eventually named the Commander-in-Chief of the British and ____________ forces, which sent him to Flanders.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Describe the army Alexander inherited from his father.

4. How was Alexander able to conquer Persia?

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

6. Why were other soldiers jealous of Wellington? Should they have been jealous? 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. Compare the upbringing of both Wellington and Alexander.

9. How does Wellington's life reveal that he was a man of great persistence, resilience, and fortitude?

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

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