This quiz is for Year 13 Classical Studies

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This quiz is for Year 13 Classical Studies

• Alexander the Great
• There are 53 slides covering the whole topic
• each question is followed by 4 multi choice
  answers.
• Students select a, b, c or d.

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Alexander the Great Quiz
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1. What was the original name of Olympias?

1. Athena
2. Epirus
3. Myrtale
4. Cleopatra

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

1. Eristics
2. Rhetoric
3. Heuristics
4. Logistics

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

• a) Philip
• b) Amyntas
• c) Alexander
• d) Demosthenes

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4. What alliance did Philip defeat at Chaeronea?

1. Athens and Thebes
2. Athens and Sparta
3. Sparta and Thebes
4. Persia and Athens

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

1. Band of Honour
2. Noble Band
3. Sacred Band
4. Secular Band

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

1. Parmenion
2. Attalus
3. Amyntas
4. Demosthenes

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7. Where did Alexanders first battle with the
Persians take place?

1. Gaza
2. Chaeronea
3. Granicus
4. Issus

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

1. Porus
2. Bessus
3. Harpalus
4. Parmenion

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9. Which exiled satrap adopted Alexander as a son?

1. Ada
2. Caria
3. Pixodarus
4. Philotas

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10. How was Callisthenes related to Aristotle?

• He was his son
• He was his brother
• He was his cousin
• He was his nephew

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

• Thrace
• Tyre
• Sidon
• Susa

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12. Where was Alexandria founded?

1. Asia Minor
2. Phoenicia
3. India
4. Egypt

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

• Chorienes
• Oxyartes
• Austanes
• Catanes

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14. Which Macedonian commander did Spitamenes
defeat?

• Coenus
• Ptolemy
• Pharnuches
• Alexander

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15. Where did Porus rule?

• India
• Egypt
• Athens
• Phoenicia

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16. Why, officially, was Philotas executed?

• He failed to report a conspiracy to Alexander
• He made plans to kill Alexander
• He aided a treasonous group
• He insulted Alexanders pride

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17. Who, of the following, was not executed by
Alexanders orders?

• Parmenion
• Ptolemy
• Callisthenes
• Philotas

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

• Amyntas
• Attalus
• Cleitus
• Parmenion

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

• Gaugamela
• Hydaspes
• Bactria
• Persepolis

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

• Darius
• Mazaeus
• Bessus
• Spitamenes

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21. Who led the conspiracy that deposed Bessus?

• Ptolemy
• Spitamenes
• Mazaeus
• Lagus

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

• Porus
• Darius
• Spitamenes
• Oxyartes

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23. Who led the army that finally defeated
Spitamenes?

• Bessus
• Alexander
• Ptolemy
• Coenus

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24. What was the name of Alexanders heavy
cavalry?

• Hypaspists
• Companions
• Royal Guard
• Phalanx

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

• Hegemon
• Great King
• Satrap
• Chief King

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

• one
• two
• three
• four

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27. Olympias was Philips_______ wife

• first
• second
• third
• fourth

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

• Antipater and Ptolemy
• Aristotle and Parmenion
• Ptolemy and Alexander of Epirus
• Antipater and Aristotle

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29. What was the name of Alexanders horse?

• Bucephalas
• Pegasus
• Dionysus
• Timon

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30. In what capacity did Aristotles father serve
during a previous Macedonian kings reign?

• Court physician
• Court jester
• Tutor
• Chief adviser

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

• Hector
• Agamemnon
• Achilles
• Odysseus

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32. Where did Alexander fight his first battle?

• Ilyria
• Pelia
• Thrace
• Chaeronea

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

• Athens
• Thebes
• Corinth
• Sparta

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34. What was another name for the Hellenic League?

• League of Greece
• League of Corinth
• League of Macedonia
• Greek League

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35. Where was Olympias originally from?

• Babylon
• Thebes
• Epirus
• Macedonia

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

• Ada
• Pixodarus
• Caria
• Lagus

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

• Roxane
• Ada
• Alexandria
• Cleopatra

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

• Demades
• Lycurgus
• Demosthenes
• Attalus

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

• Memnon
• Philostratus
• Antipater
• Parmenion

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40. When was Alexandria founded?

• 331BC
• 330BC
• 329BC
• 328BC

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41. Who defended the nearly impenetrable wall at
Persis?

• Darius
• Memnon
• Spitamenes
• Ariobarzanes

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

• Bactria
• Cyropolis
• Babylon
• Zariaspa

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

• Attock
• Porus
• Ambhi
• Aornus

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

• Porus
• Darius
• Granicus
• Spitamenes

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

• Hephaestion
• Antipater
• Ptolemy
• Parmenion

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

• Amyntas
• Ptolemy
• Coenus
• Nearchus

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47. Against whom did Alexander fight his final
battle?

• Maedi
• Thessaly
• The Cossaei
• Thrace

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48. Where did Alexander die?

• Phoenicia
• Macedonia
• Babylon
• India

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

• Susa
• Babylon
• Tyre
• Persepolis

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50. In what year did Alexander make those decrees?

• 325BC
• 324BC
• 323BC
• 322BC

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

• Miletus
• Thebes
• Persepolis
• Tyre

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