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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. When the German ships were allowed to enter the Dardanelles, what was the order for the forts to do if British ships followed?
(a) To fire on them.
(b) To let them pass.
(c) To send them away with a stern warning.
(d) To fire at them with a surprise torpedo attack.

2. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?
(a) The escape at Dunkirk.
(b) Hannibal’s victory at Cannae.
(c) The Boer War.
(d) The defeat at Sedan.

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

4. What battle did the British participate in on August 23?
(a) The Battle of Mons.
(b) The Battle of the Frontiers.
(c) The War of the Roses.
(d) The Siege of Liege.

5. Why did the Council in Britain order at the last minute that only four out of the six divisions be sent to France?
(a) A German Zepplin bombing of London.
(b) The French declared they did not neex six divisions to help them.
(c) An invasion scare.
(d) A German landing on British soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Germans put the number of victims in the massacre at Andenne at 110 people. What was the Belgian number?

2. When the Germans began shooting civilians and burning towns and cities, what were they compared to?

3. While the German ships in Chapter 10 sailed through the night, dogged by a British ship, what did their inferior coal do?

4. Prittwitz, considering the Russian threat too great, decided the Germans should retire behind what river as previously planned?

5. What is the bigger a division or a corps?

(see the answer key)

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