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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is reading supposed to provide the military reader according to Clausewitz?
(a) Preparatory guidance.
(b) A good idea of what to expect on the battlefield.
(c) A blueprint for war.
(d) Time to reflect on their lives.

2. What does Clausewitz compare the old "art of war" to to conclude its uselessness?
(a) Cultivation and eating.
(b) Arrow making and archery.
(c) Cow breeding and cultivation.
(d) Sword building and fencing.

3. What does discernment help superior officers do with the information gathered according to Clausewitz?
(a) Choose how to bribe enemy soldiers.
(b) Pick good intelligence officers.
(c) Eliminate error.
(d) Learn from the enemy's mistakes regarding how to prevent information leaks.

4. What emotion does Clausewitz say should be used to make the enemy doubt the outcome of a war?
(a) Cowardliness.
(b) Greed.
(c) Overconfidence.
(d) Fear.

5. What does Clausewitz claim as a vital component of critical analysis?
(a) Investigation and evaluation of means used in warfare.
(b) Studying at 2 or more war colleges.
(c) Have a classical education.
(d) Be from an aristocratic family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Clausewitz fear would make his book liable to endless misinterpretation?

2. What did previous theorists exclude from the rules according to Clausewitz?

3. What definition does Clausewitz give for "friction"?

4. What factor does Clausewitz say was considered the only one that could be calculated according to the first author trying to theorize war?

5. What was not considered a suitable subject for theory in the former "art of war" according to Clausewitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clausewitz mean by "Destruction of the enemy's forces"?

2. What type of men are best at dealing with friction according to Clausewitz and how are they found?

3. How does Clausewitz calculate the power of resistance of the enemy?

4. What do officers have to cultivate and why according to Clausewitz?

5. What does Clausewitz think of military knowledge through books?

6. What objectives will incidentally bring the enemy's collapse according to Clausewitz?

7. What is strategy, according to Clausewitz?

8. When do the hostilities end according to Clausewitz?

9. What is important to the soldiers of an army according to Clausewitz?

10. What is friction according to Clausewitz?

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