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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 20-Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does King Albert decide to try after Germany refuses to respond to formal messages to prevent a war?
(a) He decided to visit Berlin to calm things down.
(b) He decides to try a private appeal to the Kaiser.
(c) He decided to raise more soldiers and prepare for war.
(d) He decided to try a private phone call with the Kaiser.

2. When the voyage of the Goeben and Breslau ultimately shut off Russian access from the Black Sea, how much did Russian exports drop?
(a) 90%.
(b) 89%.
(c) 98%.
(d) 84%.

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

4. Russia was so alarmed at the German ship Goeben arriving in Turkish waters, that it was even willing to give up its claim to what to keep the peace?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) The Crimea.

5. What did the leaflets say that were dropped by a German Taube on Paris?
(a) That the huns were coming for them.
(b) That they should join the German side.
(c) That the Germans were at the gates.
(d) That they were all going to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Minister of War, Millerand refused to take responsibility for what if it remained in Paris an hour longer than the evening of September 2?

2. What did the German armies do during the first four days of Dubail’s and Castelnau’s offensive into Lorraine?

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

4. What belief convinced von Kluck to make an inward wheel with his army?

5. After Grey convinced the House that war was a grave possibility, what did he tell Churchill was next to do?

(see the answer key)

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