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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. Sir John’s desire to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force from the continent was driven by what fear?
(a) The fear of failing his men.
(b) The fear of losing his army, his name, and his reputation.
(c) The fear of failing his government, who had trusted him with such enormous responsibility.
(d) The fear of looking like too much of a friend to the French, England’s bitter enemy of old.

2. While the German ships in Chapter 10 sailed through the night, dogged by a British ship, what did their inferior coal do?
(a) Burned clean because of the German’s superior engines.
(b) Caused a fire in the ship’s engines.
(c) Blotched the moonlit sky with black clouds.
(d) Polluted the air more than any other ship for a hundred miles around.

3. Joffre knew that the German objective was not the government but what?
(a) The French navy.
(b) The French people.
(c) The French railroads.
(d) The French armies.

4. Prittwitz, considering the Russian threat too great, decided the Germans should retire behind what river as previously planned?
(a) The Vistula.
(b) The Mississippi.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Rhine.

5. As collapse of the French armies loom, Sir John French informed Kitchener of his intention to do what?
(a) Withdraw to Paris.
(b) Attack the Germans posthaste.
(c) Retire behind the Seine.
(d) Cross the Marne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one task that caused Joffre visible discomfort?

2. What did Italy decide to do “with the clarity of insight possessed by the Latin intellect”?

3. Which of the two Russian armies did the German Eighth Army choose to attack with all of its strength before the other could come to help?

4. Why did the disaster at Tannenberg not initially scare the Russian people?

5. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?

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