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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 20-Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What humiliation in their past did the French want to avenge?
(a) Their defeat at sea by the Germans.
(b) Their defeat at Sedan.
(c) Their defeat at Hastings.
(d) Their defeat at Waterloo.

2. Why did the French insist that Russia attack by the 15th day of war, regardless of its readiness?
(a) They knew Russia would utterly defeat the Germans.
(b) They wanted Germany to leave them alone.
(c) They knew Britain would join them if the Russians did.
(d) They wanted Germany to be forced to fight on two fronts.

3. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Four years.
(d) Two years.

4. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
(a) 10,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 11,000.

5. What simple message did Gallieni tell the French government when called before them?
(a) That they were no longer safe in the capital.
(b) That they were needed to help in the defense.
(c) That if they left it would be seen as motivated by fear.
(d) That they were safe and had no need to fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?

2. What ugly surprise did von Kluck’s army run into on September 1?

3. Though Ludendorff was important in the planning, who was the public face of the German victory at Tannenberg?

4. What belief convinced von Kluck to make an inward wheel with his army?

5. Instead of a double envelopment of France’s armies, what did Schlieffen settle on?

(see the answer key)

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