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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 battle did the British participate in on August 23?
(a) The Siege of Liege.
(b) The Battle of the Frontiers.
(c) The Battle of Mons.
(d) The War of the Roses.

2. Why was the Battle of the Marne one of the “decisive battles of the world” (440)?
(a) Because it determined that the Russians would ultimately lose the war.
(b) Because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose the war.
(c) Because it determined that the war would go on.
(d) Because it determined that the Allies would ultimately win the war.

3. How did the two-day Russian retreat from Tannenberg go?
(a) It was a disaster.
(b) It went well, with few losses.
(c) It was executed with precision, and left the Russians ready to continue the war.
(d) It could have gone better, but was not utterly ruinous.

4. How many years had Belgium been independent?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Fifty.
(d) One hundred.

5. How many wives had Sukhomlinov had?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kaiser William II mean when he said, “If only someone had told me beforehand that England would take up arms against us!” (120)?

2. What does Tuchman say “cast a long shadow upon the world” (137)?

3. How did the correspondent Arthur Moore describe the Allied armies in his report?

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

5. What country was known as the Great Neutral?

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