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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, A Prime Minister Alone, 1940-1941.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The particular regiment that Churchill was a member of enjoyed what social benefits?
(a) No parliamentary taxes and secret privileges.
(b) Large financial gains.
(c) Locally esteemed and emotionally secure.
(d) World recognition.

2. Churchill left Cuba a full member of:
(a) The Conservative Party.
(b) The Royal Air Force.
(c) The Hussars.
(d) The Sandhursts.

3. What army had the British regiment reforms of 1870-1880 been modeled after?
(a) United States Army.
(b) German Army.
(c) French Army.
(d) Russian Army.

4. What was Churchill's primary task while serving in India?
(a) Dig fox holes.
(b) Plan war strategies.
(c) Recruit reinforcements.
(d) Patrol for insurgents.

5. What attack inspired Japanese descent on Pearl Harbor a year later?
(a) Taranto.
(b) United States joining the war.
(c) Matsumoto.
(d) Austrian invasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country was Britain obligated to defend by honoring it's treaty?

2. In 1941, what country's abandonment of neutrality could change the direction of the war?

3. In the century since Trafalgar, who had been the unchallenged Mistress of the Seas?

4. What was the Enchantress?

5. After learning of an outbreak of fighting in Northwest India, whom did Churchill telegraph to ask to join his military expedition?

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