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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 did the Russian soldiers do when they saw an airplane, regardless of whose side it was on?
(a) Waved in a friendly manner.
(b) Shot at it.
(c) Stared in amazement.
(d) Used anti-aircraft guns to bring it down.

2. On the morning of the Battle of Mons, Sir John French estimated the German forces they were about to fight at one or two army corps plus cavalry. How large was it really?
(a) Sir John French was accurate in his assessment.
(b) Sixteen corps but no cavalry.
(c) Four corps and three cavalry divisions.
(d) Six corps and some cavalry.

3. How many years had Belgium been independent?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

4. On August 24, after days of terrible news of the disaster of Plan 17, what did Joffre finally tell Messimy?
(a) That it is the fault of the British that everything went wrong.
(b) That he would lose his coat before admitting defeat.
(c) That the French must go on the defensive.
(d) That the French must still continue to attack, whatever the cost.

5. The German and French attacks, each from their extreme right wing, is compared to what?
(a) A diving airplane.
(b) A subway.
(c) A revolving door.
(d) An escalator.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day did Rennenkampf officially open his offensive with his entire army?

2. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)

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

4. What kind of units were the first Germans to cross over the Belgian border?

5. Why did France order a ten-kilometer withdrawal from its frontier on July 30?

(see the answer key)

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