This quiz is for Year 13 Classical Studies
Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great Quiz
1. What was the original name
of Olympias?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Athena
Epirus
Myrtale
Cleopatra
2.What is the practice of
arguing a point from either
side, as taught by Aristotle to
Alexander?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Eristics
Rhetoric
Heuristics
Logistics
3.What was the name of
Olympias' 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 Honour
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)
b)
c)
d)
He was his son
He was his brother
He was his cousin
He was his nephew
11. What was the only city in
Phoenicia that opposed
Alexander?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Thrace
Tyre
Sidon
Susa
12. Where was Alexandria
founded?
a) Asia Minor
b) Phoenicia
c) India
d) Egypt
13. Alexander married the
daughter of which of the
Paraetacene barons?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Chorienes
Oxyartes
Austanes
Catanes
14. Which Macedonian
commander did Spitamenes
defeat?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Coenus
Ptolemy
Pharnuches
Alexander
15. Where did Porus rule?
a)
b)
c)
d)
India
Egypt
Athens
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)
b)
c)
d)
Parmenion
Ptolemy
Callisthenes
Philotas
18. Whom did Alexander
publicly murder in a drunken
rage?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Amyntas
Attalus
Cleitus
Parmenion
19. Which plundered city has
become a key source for
archaeological research?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Gaugamela
Hydaspes
Bactria
Persepolis
20. Which satrap did Alexander
reinstate despite having just
fought against him a
Gaugamela?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Darius
Mazaeus
Bessus
Spitamenes
21. Who led the conspiracy
that deposed Bessus?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ptolemy
Spitamenes
Mazaeus
Lagus
22. Against which enemy did
the Macedonians have to face
elephants?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Porus
Darius
Spitamenes
Oxyartes
23. Who led the army that
finally defeated Spitamenes?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Bessus
Alexander
Ptolemy
Coenus
24. What was the name of
Alexander’s heavy cavalry?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hypaspists
Companions
Royal Guard
Phalanx
25. What was the official term
for the leader of the Hellenic
League?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hegemon
Great King
Satrap
Chief King
26. How many times did Darius
offer to make a peace
settlement with Alexander?
a)
b)
c)
d)
one
two
three
four
27. Olympias was
Philip’s_______ wife
a)
b)
c)
d)
first
second
third
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)
b)
c)
d)
Bucephalas
Pegasus
Dionysus
Timon
30. In what capacity did
Aristotle’s father serve during
a previous Macedonian king’s
reign?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Court physician
Court jester
Tutor
Chief adviser
31. Although he had several,
which mythical hero did
Alexander see as his ideal
model?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hector
Agamemnon
Achilles
Odysseus
32. Where did Alexander fight
his first battle?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ilyria
Pelia
Thrace
Chaeronea
33. Which Greek city-state
refused to participate in the
Hellenic League?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Athens
Thebes
Corinth
Sparta
34. What was another name for
the Hellenic League?
a)
b)
c)
d)
League of Greece
League of Corinth
League of Macedonia
Greek League
35. Where was Olympias
originally from?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Babylon
Thebes
Epirus
Macedonia
36. Who tried to marry his or
her daughter to Alexander’s
half-brother Philip Arrhidaeus?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ada
Pixodarus
Caria
Lagus
37. Whose marriage to Philip
gave Alexander reason for
anxiety about his succession?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Roxane
Ada
Alexandria
Cleopatra
38. What famous Athenian
orator stirred the most trouble
against Macedonian authority?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Demades
Lycurgus
Demosthenes
Attalus
39. What Greek mercenary
leader commanded the
defense of Halicarnassus?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Memnon
Philostratus
Antipater
Parmenion
40. When was Alexandria
founded?
a)
b)
c)
d)
331BC
330BC
329BC
328BC
41. Who defended the nearly
impenetrable wall at Persis?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Darius
Memnon
Spitamenes
Ariobarzanes
42. What Sogdinian city was
razed after following
Spitamenes and revolting?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Bactria
Cyropolis
Babylon
Zariaspa
43. Which Indian ruler aligned
himself with Alexander without
a fight?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Attock
Porus
Ambhi
Aornus
44. Whom did Alexander defeat
in battle on the bank of the
Hydaspes?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Porus
Darius
Granicus
Spitamenes
45. Whose death greatly
saddened Alexander near the
end of his own life?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hephaestion
Antipater
Ptolemy
Parmenion
46. What general finally gave
voice to the desires of the
Macedonian army to return
home?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Amyntas
Ptolemy
Coenus
Nearchus
47. Against whom did
Alexander fight his final battle?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Maedi
Thessaly
The Cossaei
Thrace
48. Where did Alexander die?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Phoenicia
Macedonia
Babylon
India
49. In what Persian city did
Alexander make his two
famous decrees reagrding
exiles and deification?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Susa
Babylon
Tyre
Persepolis
50. In what year did Alexander
make those decrees?
a)
b)
c)
d)
325BC
324BC
323BC
322BC
51. Which of the following
cities did Alexander never
raze?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Miletus
Thebes
Persepolis
Tyre
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