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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. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?
(a) The infantry.
(b) The reserves.
(c) The cavalry.
(d) The tanks.

2. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

3. 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) Polluted the air more than any other ship for a hundred miles around.
(c) Caused a fire in the ship’s engines.
(d) Blotched the moonlit sky with black clouds.

4. The German Prince Rupprecht argued that what was the best way he could keep as many French troops as possible occupied?
(a) By beating a hasty retreat.
(b) By defending.
(c) By opening negotiations.
(d) By attacking.

5. 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) St. Petersburg.
(b) Berlin.
(c) The Crimea.
(d) Constantinople.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Clausewitz claim one could win public opinion?

2. Though the Russian defeat at Tannenberg was terrible, what good did it accomplish for France?

3. What emotional response did Joffre show under the stress of the Allied retreat?

4. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?

5. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?

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