10th Grade Classical Greece & Hellenistic World Quizzes, Questions & Answers

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The Campaign Of Alexander The Great (335-323 BC)

General knowledge testing on the histories of Alexander the Great.

Questions: 18 | Attempts: 239 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question 1
Greek General and mercenary commander for the Persians that led a successful counter insurgency against Alexander along the western port cities of Anatolia, in the city of Halicarnassus, and the Aegean Sea before his death in 334 BC.

Mentor of Rhodes

Azemilkos of Tyre

Memnon of Rhodes

Pixodaros

Sample Question 2
Originally a commander under Philip II, in 334 BC Alexander appoints this future Diadochi member as Satrap of Greater Phrygia (western Anatolia) charging him with mopping up operations and quelling rebellions in the wake of his march east.

Hephaestion

Antigonus Monopthalmus

Perdiccas

Ptolemy

A 12-question quiz on The History of the Peloponnesian War, based on The Landmark Thucydides and covering the tenth through sixteenth years of the war.

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 98 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question 1
Why did Brasidas conclude that Cleon was incompetent despite his past successes at Pylos, Torone, and Galepsus.

Cleon neglected to protect his artillery with an infantry screen.

Cleon insisted on assaulting enemy line formations in a column.

Cleon exposed his army to an enemy army without expecting battle.

Cleon had failed to make use of superior Athenian sea transport capabilities.

Sample Question 2
How was Brasidas mortally wounded in the rout at Amphipolis that killed 600 Athenians, including Cleon, at the cost of only 7 Spartans?

He took the wound while killing Cleon in a duel of the two commanders.

He took the wound while leading a surprise charge from the front.

He was struck in the eye by an arrow.

He took the wound in the ankle, where his mother had held him while dipping him in the waters of the Styx.

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Sample Question
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What did Thucydides believe had given King Agamemnon of Mycenae the right to lead the Greeks against Troy?

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