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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (Chapter 6-9).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
(a) To lower the military service age limit.
(b) To conscript men across Germany.
(c) To use reserve units in the front lines.
(d) To hire mercenaries from Italy.

2. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?
(a) Attack both wings at once.
(b) Try to get behind the Russian armies.
(c) Attack one wing before the other.
(d) Split their own army into two wings.

3. What did the President of France announce was the only form of fighting suited to the French soldier?
(a) The passive.
(b) The defensive.
(c) The offensive.
(d) The agressive.

4. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?
(a) General Joffre of France.
(b) King George of England.
(c) King William II of Germany.
(d) King Albert of Belgium.

5. Whose funeral sets the scene in Chapter 1?
(a) William II of Germany.
(b) Edward VII of England.
(c) King Albert of Belgium.
(d) William of Orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bigger a division or a corps?

2. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?

3. The German fear of what did not run as deep as their commitment to Socialism?

4. Which of these was not one of the three military minds that thought the war would last years, not months?

5. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?

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