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1
Lysimachus
devised a
game
whereby Alexander impersonated the
hero___
.
Hector
Achilles
2
Aristotle
prepared an
edition
of the___, which Alexander always kept with him.
Iliad
Poetics
3
Alexander had a___.
younger brother
younger sister
4
In October 335 Alexander prepared his___
expedition
.
Egypt
Asiatic
5
In
343
Philip summoned___from Lesbos to
tutor
Alexander.
Plato
Aristotle
6
His
parents
were King
Philip
II of Macedon and
Queen___
.
Olympias
Ariadne
7
He
ordered
80 of his Macedonian companions to marry Persian
princesses
.
True
False
8
Alexander
defeated
the
Persians
at Arbelain the
Battle
of___.
Thermopylae
Gaugamela
9
Alexander
captured
the Persian
royal family
and___.
killed them all
respect them
10
He captured the Bactrian
prince___
.
Oxymandes
Oxyartes
11
He succeeded in forging the largest Western
empire
of the ancient world.
False
True
12
He
died
at the
age
of___.
32
33
34
13
At Memphis the
Egyptian
priesthood recognized him as___.
pharaoh
king
14
___ later seized the
fortress
.
8 months
8 years
15
Alexander ordered a
royal funeral
with honors
for Darius
.
True
False
16
Alexander
married___
, a
daughter of Darius
, to legitimize his
sovereignty
.
Rhoxana
Stateira
17
Alexander
besieged___
.
Thebes
Sparta
18
Alexander's favorite
tutor
was the Acarnian___.
Losemachus
Lysimachus
19
In 332 Alexander began the of siege of Tyre. He employed___.
elephants
siege machines
20
His empire stretched from
Britain
to the
Himalayas
.
True
False
21
In northern
India
, Alexander
defeated
the armies of
King___
.
Porus
Darius
22
Alexander
killed
all possible royal claimants to the
throne
.
True
False
23
Olympias, his mother, was the daughter of___, King of the
Molossians
.
Ptolomeus
Neoptolemus
24
His
troops
were___ to those of
Darius
.
superior
inferior
25
Alexander
punished
the
assassins
of
Darius
according to Persian law.
True
False
26
In
Gordium
Alexander cut the famous___.
Gordian Knot
Gordian coird
27
Olympias
murdered
the
daughter
of Philip and
Cleopatra
.
False
True
28
His
father
married
Cleopatra
, the daughter of his general
Attalus
.
False
True
29
Alexander
reached
the___.
Tiber
Ganges
30
Alexander united the
Greeks
.
True
False
31
Alexander had deep-set___
eyes
.
blue
dark
32
One of Alexander's first
teachers
was___.
Leonidas
Horatio
33
He
liked
women and wine.
False
True
34
In 331 he
founded
the
city
of___.
Thebes
Alexandria.
35
The
empire___
at his death.
collapsed
did not collaps
36
Alexander renewed the
treaties
with the member states included
Sparta
.
True
False
37
Alexander was
born
in___.
356 B.C.
365 B.C.
38
Egypt
fell to Alexander___ resistance.
with
without
39
In Thebes he
spared
only the
temples
and the house of the
poet___
.
Homer
Pindar
40
He had a mass of dark,___
hair
.
curly
straight
41
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was the king of___.
Greece
Macedon
42
Darius was
assassinated
by___.
the satraps
Alexander
43
On June 2 he fell ill with___, and 11 days later he
died
.
flu
malaria
44
In every
country
Alexander did not
respect
the local customs, religions, and peoples.
False
True
45
In
Thebes
he
killed
the
soldiers
, and sold the women and children into
slavery
.
True
False
46
His
father__
.
had numerous love affairs
was faithful to his wife
47
To
commemorate
the
victory
over the
Persiasn
he sent___ to the Parthenon in Athens.
300 sets of Persian armor
300 slaves
300 kiolograms of gold