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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many years had Belgium been independent?
2. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?
3. Were the French unaware of the possibility of an attack from the German right wing?
4. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?
5. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
Short Essay Questions
1. Contrast the differences between the Elder von Moltke’s view of the next war being a long war and the general opinion of the younger generation who thought the next war would not feasibly last very long at all.
2. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?
3. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?
4. While the Germans had defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian war that ended in 1870, what condition was France in when World War I began just over 40 years later?
5. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?
6. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
7. What was Plan 17?
8. What kind of things did King Albert of Belgium hear when he visited Berlin in Chapter 8?
9. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
10. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze why Russia “exercised a spell upon Europe” (56) that was in many ways contradictory to its actual power and situation.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the public feeling throughout the Allied countries regarding the rumors and hopes of Russia’s aid and its limitless manpower, as described in Chapter 20.
Essay Topic 3
Describe in your own words the appearance of the waves of field gray uniforms and the general scene of the initial entrance of the German armies into Belgium from Chapter 11.
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