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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, On Strategy in General : Chapter 2, Force, Reserves & Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clausewitz describe the inexperienced soldier's first encounter with war?
(a) As being plunged in darkness.
(b) As the first step toward real manhood.
(c) As a good life lesson.
(d) As an eye opening experience.

2. What rule did the theorist first declare as the one and only according to Clausewitz?
(a) Superiority of infantry.
(b) Superiority of cavalry.
(c) Numerical superiority.
(d) Superiority of archery.

3. What does Clausewitz say armies were like after the advent of tactics?
(a) Effective fighting forces.
(b) Sending one wave after the other.
(c) Barely effective.
(d) Automata.

4. What do the enemy's expenditures consist of according to Clausewitz?
(a) Wastage of his forces and loss of territory.
(b) Food and camp expenses.
(c) Bribes of his allies.
(d) Paying his soldiers and feeding his horses.

5. Why do the first war theorists only consider what could be mathematically calculated when they created the first war theory according to Clausewitz?
(a) They wanted to reach a set of sure and positive conclusion.
(b) They were mathematicians.
(c) They didn't care about war.
(d) They wanted the theory to be easily taught.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clausewitz say indicates the will's resistance to a single blow?

2. What does Clausewitz say about the use of the forces available in Book 3, Chapter 2?

3. What must the strategist do during war according to Clausewitz?

4. What are the top commanders more prone to suffer from according to Clausewitz?

5. What clouds a soldier's objectivity concerning war according to Clausewitz?

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