Chapter 11 Quizzes

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. When Alexander arrived at the oracle of Zeus-Ammon in Egypt, by what name did the chief priest greet him?

"Father of Egypt" correct incorrect

"Conqueror of Troy" correct incorrect

"Son of Ammon" correct incorrect

"God of Storms" correct incorrect

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. Who finally killed Darius III in 330 BC?

Philotas correct incorrect

Alexander correct incorrect

Darius IV correct incorrect

Bessus correct incorrect

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. The crossing of the arid desert wastes of ______ cost Alexander thousands of lives.

Thar correct incorrect

Gedrosia correct incorrect

Taxila correct incorrect

Carmania correct incorrect

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. Which of the following, in the aftermath of the Battle of the Granicus, was entrusted by Alexander with the administration of Caria?

Parmenion correct incorrect

King Midas correct incorrect

Queen Ada correct incorrect

Ptolemy correct incorrect

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. It was ______ who preserved Alexander's succession by quickly presenting him to the army for acclamation as king after the assassination of Philip.

Antipater correct incorrect

Cleitus the Black correct incorrect

Cassander correct incorrect

Parmenion correct incorrect

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. How did Alexander treat the captured family members of Darius III?

He executed the men and married off the women to several of his younger generals correct incorrect

He executed all of them correct incorrect

He sent them to Athens as "living tribute" of his Persian conquests correct incorrect

He protected them and accorded them the public deference to which they were accustomed correct incorrect

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. Which of the following did Alexander consider to be his legendary ancestors?

Achilles and Ajax correct incorrect

Heracles and Achilles correct incorrect

Heracles and Theseus correct incorrect

Odysseus and Perseus correct incorrect

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. The first city Alexander founded on his Persian campaign was ______.

Philippoupolis correct incorrect

Olympene correct incorrect

Philippi correct incorrect

Alexandria correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not, by 327 BC, a cause of unrest among Alexander's Macedonian followers?

Alexander's marriage to a Sogdian (and not a Macedonian) woman correct incorrect

The death of Bessus correct incorrect

Alexander's demand for proskynesis correct incorrect

The difficulties of the campaign in Bactria and Sogdiana correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not part of the grand celebration of Alexander's conquest of India in 324 BC?

The distribution of gifts, including debt relief, to 10,000 of Alexander's soldiers who married Asian women correct incorrect

The marriage of 90 of Alexander's principal officers to Persian and Median wives correct incorrect

Alexander's marriage to daughters of Artaxerxes III and Darius III correct incorrect

The execution of twelve young Indian nobles correct incorrect

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. After the Battle of the Granicus River, Alexander sent 300 suits of Persian armor to Athens, with the inscription "From Alexander, the son of Philip, and the Greeks, except the ______."

Spartans correct incorrect

Corinthians correct incorrect

Thebans correct incorrect

Acarnanians correct incorrect

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. Who emerged as Alexander's chief adversary in India, though he later became an ally?

Semiramis correct incorrect

Taxiles correct incorrect

Porus correct incorrect

Abisares correct incorrect

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. The Athenian courtesan ______ is rumored to have been responsible for encouraging Alexander to burn Persepolis to the ground.

Neaera correct incorrect

Thaïs correct incorrect

Phryne correct incorrect

Mnesarete correct incorrect

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. What tribe was Alexander's main target in his early campaign against the Illyrians and Thracians?

The Deretini correct incorrect

The Triballi correct incorrect

The Narensi correct incorrect

The Iapydes correct incorrect

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. What is the name of the modern village, once the Macedonian capital of Aegae, where Macedonian royal tombs were discovered in 1977?

Vergina correct incorrect

Palatitsia correct incorrect

Agia Varvara correct incorrect

Lefkopetra correct incorrect

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. When Alexander entered India, he believed that he was approaching the end of the inhabited world.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Alexander sent Darius III's body back to Persia, where it was buried with royal honors.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Parmenion saved Alexander from certain death by cutting off the arm of a Persian warrior who was about to kill Alexander.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The cities "liberated" by Alexander in Asia Minor no longer paid tribute to the Persians, but found themselves now required to make contributions to the Macedonians.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The Macedonian presence in India disappeared a little more than a decade after Alexander's death.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect