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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. How many men did Kitchener announce the Britain must be prepared to put into the field?
(a) An army of 12 divisions.
(b) An army of 100,000.
(c) An army of millions.
(d) An army of at least 50 divisions.

2. How quickly did Ludendorff leave when he learned of his promotion to Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army in the East?
(a) One hour.
(b) One day.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) Three quarters of an hour.

3. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?
(a) Because they did not care about it.
(b) Because the German leadership did not publish the response.
(c) Because they did not read the newspapers.
(d) Because it had not been sent yet.

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 the French must still continue to attack, whatever the cost.
(c) That the French must go on the defensive.
(d) That he would lose his coat before admitting defeat.

5. How did each German regiment’s field kitchen keep up while on the march?
(a) They were in the back of moving vans.
(b) They were on wheels, set up right in moving wagons.
(c) The cooks were driven ahead and then prepared food for the soldiers where they would end their march.
(d) The cooks prepared the food on horseback.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the medieval city of Louvain known for?

2. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?

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

4. The German fear of what did not run as deep as their commitment to Socialism?

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

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