1. How did Clausewitz claim one could win public opinion?
(a) By gaining victories and the enemy’s capital.
(b) By outspending your opponents.
(c) By outsmarting your opponents.
(d) By giving the people what they want.

2. What haunted Ludendorff as he directed the German Eighth Army to attack Samsonov’s Russian army?
(a) The knowledge that the Western Front could collapse at any minute.
(b) The knowledge that he had not slept in days and doubted his judgment.
(c) The knowledge that if he failed, the whole war would be lost.
(d) The knowledge that Rennenkampf’s army was behind him.

3. While Germany had the second largest fleet in the world, how many ships did it have total in the Mediterranean Sea?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

4. With the situation going from bad to worse, what two rivers does Joffre consider as new points for the Allies to fall back on?
(a) The Marne or the Rhine.
(b) The Seine or the Vistula.
(c) The Marne or the Seine.
(d) The Rhine or the Seine.

5. How many “prongs” would Russia have in its invasion of Germany (65)?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?

3. What did Kaiser William II say to M. Pichon of France at dinner that caused a fuss?

4. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?

5. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?

(see the answer key)

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