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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 is the bigger a division or a corps?
(a) They are made up of different kinds of soldiers and cannot be counted the same.
(b) A corps.
(c) A division.
(d) They are two words for the same thing.

2. What does Tuchman say “cast a long shadow upon the world” (137)?
(a) The British ultimatum to Germany.
(b) The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
(c) The German ultimatum to the Belgians.
(d) The voyage of the Goeben and the Breslau.

3. What country created Plan 17?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

4. How did the correspondent Arthur Moore describe the Allied armies in his report?
(a) On the defensive, but not all was lost.
(b) As retreating and broken.
(c) As fresh and ready to for victory.
(d) As battered about a bit but still ready to put up a fight.

5. What did Moltke’s nickname der traurige Julius mean in English?
(a) Grumpy Gus.
(b) Gloomy George.
(c) Gloomy Gus.
(d) Grumpy Gale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?

2. If Schlieffen wanted to be bold in his plans, what did Moltke want to do?

3. What day in the German plans was the one scheduled to defeat France by?

4. In spite of reports of disaster and defeat, both Wilson and Joffre continued to plan on what strategy as Chapter 14 draws to a close?

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

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