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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. What is Boniface?
(a) Nightly air raids.
(b) Raw intelligence intercepts.
(c) Russian spy network.
(d) European treaty.

2. What was the "Battle of Britain"?
(a) Reference to WWII.
(b) An air offensive.
(c) A Parliamentary battle.
(d) A amphibious assault.

3. Which appointment brought Churchill to the forefront of Britain's involvement in Europe's growing military confrontation?
(a) Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
(b) Lord Chancellor's Department Committee.
(c) First Lord of the Temporal.
(d) First Lord of the Admiralty.

4. What was the principle means by which Churchill directed the war?
(a) His office.
(b) His box.
(c) Encrypted telegraphs.
(d) By telephone.

5. What was Churchill most "ill judged" idea during WWII?
(a) Aligning with Russia.
(b) Bombing Pearl Harbor.
(c) Setting Europe ablaze.
(d) Creating a special forces unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. The particular regiment that Churchill was a member of enjoyed what social benefits?

2. What paper did Churchill's mother get him hired on to?

3. What did Lloyd George and Churchill battle over?

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

5. What was a "Silent Remington"?

(see the answer key)

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