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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (Chapters 15-19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What preparations had the Russians made specifically regarding their promise to help the French?
(a) A decent amount, but there was much still to do.
(b) Everything. They were ready like a well-oiled machine.
(c) Very little. They had not had much time.
(d) None. They had to improvise.

2. What famous location lay between Mons and Brussels?
(a) The Ardennes.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

3. At one point during the reatreat, when Lanrezac was convinced that Joffre’s plan was a bad one, he refused to move without what?
(a) A day of rest for his troops.
(b) A written order to do so.
(c) An assurance of victory.
(d) A verbal agreement that it was not his idea.

4. What does Tuchman say “cast a long shadow upon the world” (137)?
(a) The voyage of the Goeben and the Breslau.
(b) The German ultimatum to the Belgians.
(c) The British ultimatum to Germany.
(d) The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.

5. As the Allies retreated from the German advance, British casualties continued to grow, solidifying Sir John French’s desire to do what?
(a) Bring his army out of the fight and out of France.
(b) Work in close concert with the French to find a path to victory.
(c) Use his army to finish off the Germans once and for all.
(d) Give his boys a few weeks of rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russian soldiers do when they saw an airplane, regardless of whose side it was on?

2. How did general Joffre want to treat the Belgian army?

3. Who was asked to be the Governor of Paris and to direct its defense?

4. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)

5. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)

(see the answer key)

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