SparkNotes: Alexander the Great: Review Test

1. What was the original name of Olympias?

(A) Athena

(B) Epirus

(C) Myrtale

(D) Cleopatra

2. What is the practice of arguing a point from either side, as taught by Aristotle to Alexander?

(A) Eristics

(B) Rhetoric

(C) Heuristics

(D) Logistics

3. What was the name of Olympias's brother who succeeded to the throne of Epirus?

(A) Philip

(B) Amyntas

(C) Alexander

(D) Demosthenes

4. What alliance did Philip defeat at Chaeronea?

(A) Athens and Thebes

(B) Athens and Sparta

(C) Sparta and Thebes

(D) Persia and Athens

5. What was the name of the elite Theban group whom Alexander defeated at Chaeronea?

(A) Band of Honor

(B) Noble Band

(C) Sacred Band

(D) Secular Band

6. With whom did Alexander get into a public quarrel after he felt he had been called a bastard?

(A) Parmenion

(B) Attalus

(C) Amyntas

(D) Demosthenes

7. Where did Alexander's first battle with the Persians take place?

(A) Gaza

(B) Chaeronea

(C) Granicus

(D) Issus

8. Which of the following was involved in the conspiracy against Darius?

(A) Porus

(B) Bessus

(C) Harpalus

(D) Parmenion

9. Which exiled satrap adopted Alexander as a son?

(A) Ada

(B) Caria

(C) Pixodarus

(D) Philotas

10. How was Callisthenes related to Aristotle?

(A) He was his son

(B) He was his brother

(C) He was his cousin

(D) He was his nephew

11. What was the only city in Phoenicia that opposed Alexander?

(A) Thrace

(B) Tyre

(C) Sidon

(D) Susa

12. Where was Alexandria founded?

(A) Asia Minor

(B) Phoenicia

(C) India

(D) Egypt

13. Alexander married the daughter of which one of the four Paraetacene barons?

(A) Chorienes

(B) Oxyartes

(C) Austanes

(D) Catanes

14. Which Macedonian commander did Spitamenes defeat?

(A) Coenus

(B) Ptolemy

(C) Pharnuches

(D) Alexander

15. Where did Porus rule?

(A) India

(B) Egypt

(C) Athens

(D) Phoenicia

16. Why, officially, was Philotas executed?

(A) He failed to report a conspiracy to Alexander

(B) He made plans to kill Alexander

(C) He aided a treasonous group

(D) He insulted Alexander's pride

17. Who of the following was not executed by Alexander's orders?

(A) Parmenion

(B) Ptolemy

(C) Callisthenes

(D) Philotas

18. Whom did Alexander publicly murder in a drunken rage?

(A) Amyntas

(B) Attalus

(C) Cleitus

(D) Parmenion

19. Which plundered city has become a key source for archaeological research?

(A) Gaugamela

(B) Hydaspes

(C) Bactria

(D) Persepolis

20. Which satrap did Alexander reinstate despite having just fought against him at Gaugamela?

(A) Darius

(B) Mazaeus

(C) Bessus

(D) Spitamenes

21. Who led the conspiracy that deposed Bessus?

(A) Ptolemy

(B) Spitamenes

(C) Mazaeus

(D) Lagus

22. Against which enemy did the Macedonians have to face elephants?

(A) Porus

(B) Darius

(C) Spitamenes

(D) Oxyartes

23. Who led the army that finally defeated Spitamenes?

(A) Bessus

(B) Alexander

(C) Ptolemy

(D) Coenus

24. What was the name of Alexander's heavy cavalry?

(A) Hypaspists

(B) Companions

(C) Royal Guard

(D) Phalanx

25. What was the official term for the leader of the Hellenic League?

(A) Hegemon

(B) Great King

(C) Satrap

(D) Chief King

26. How many times did Darius offer to make a peace settlement with Alexander?

(A) one

(B) two

(C) three

(D) four

27. Olympias was Philip's _______ wife.

(A) First

(B) Second

(C) Third

(D) Fourth

28. If Alexander was poisoned, who are the parties most under suspicion?

(A) Antipater and Ptolemy

(B) Aristotle and Parmenion

(C) Ptolemy and Alexander of Epirus

(D) Antipater and Aristotle

29. What was the name of Alexander's horse?

(A) Bucephalas

(B) Pegasus

(C) Dionysus

(D) Timon

30. In what capacity did Aristotle's father serve during a previous Macedonian king's reign?

(A) Court physician

(B) Court jester

(C) Tutor

(D) Chief adviser

31. Although he had several, which mythical hero did Alexander see as his ideal model?

(A) Hector

(B) Agamemnon

(C) Achilles

(D) Odysseus

32. Where did Alexander fight his first battle?

(A) Ilyria

(B) Pella

(C) Thrace

(D) Chaeronea

33. Which Greek city-state refused to participate in the Hellenic League?

(A) Athens

(B) Thebes

(C) Corinth

(D) Sparta

34. What is another name for the Hellenic League?

(A) League of Greece

(B) League of Corinth

(C) League of Macedonia

(D) Greek League

35. Where was Olympias originally from?

(A) Babylon

(B) Thebes

(C) Epirus

(D) Macedonia

36. Who tried to marry his or her daughter to Alexander's half-brother Philip Arrhidaeus?

(A) Ada

(B) Pixodarus

(C) Caria

(D) Lagus

37. Whose marriage to Philip gave Alexander reason for anxiety about his succession?

(A) Roxane

(B) Ada

(C) Alexandria

(D) Cleopatra

38. What famous Athenian orator stirred the most trouble against Macedonian authority?

(A) Demades

(B) Lycurgus

(C) Demosthenes

(D) Attalus

39. What Greek mercenary leader commanded the defense of Halicarnassus?

(A) Memnon

(B) Philostratus

(C) Antipater

(D) Parmenion

40. When was Alexandria founded?

(A) 331 B.C.

(B) 330 B.C.

(C) 329 B.C.

(D) 328 B.C.

41. Who defended the nearly impenetrable wall at Persis?

(A) Darius

(B) Memnon

(C) Spitamenes

(D) Ariobarzanes

42. What Sogdinian city was razed after following Spitamenes and revolting?

(A) Bactria

(B) Cyropolis

(C) Babylon

(D) Zariaspa

43. Which Indian ruler aligned himself with Alexander without a fight?

(A) Attock

(B) Porus

(C) Ambhi

(D) Aornus

44. Whom did Alexander defeat in battle on the bank of the Hydaspes?

(A) Porus

(B) Darius

(C) Granicus

(D) Spitamenes

45. Whose death greatly saddened Alexander near the end of his own life?

(A) Hephaestion

(B) Antipater

(C) Ptolemy

(D) Parmenion

46. What general finally gave voice to the desires of the Macedonian army to return home?

(A) Amyntas

(B) Ptolemy

(C) Coenus

(D) Nearchus

47. Against whom did Alexander fight his final battle?

(A) Maedi

(B) Thessaly

(C) The Cossaei

(D) Thrace

48. Where did Alexander die?

(A) Phoenicia

(B) Macedonia

(C) Babylon

(D) India

49. In what Persian city did Alexander make his two famous decrees regarding exiles and deification?

(A) Susa

(B) Babylon

(C) Tyre

(D) Persepolis

50. In what year did Alexander make those decrees?

(A) 325 B.C.

(B) 324 B.C.

(C) 323 B.C.

(D) 322 B.C.

51. Which of the following cities did Alexander never raze?

(A) Miletus

(B) Thebes

(C) Persepolis

(D) Tyre