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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 did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?
(a) That war had become vain.
(b) That war was a human necessity.
(c) That war was inconvenient.
(d) That war made you strong.

2. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)
(a) That the Kaiser could not play war games.
(b) That the Kaiser could not stop things that were now in motion.
(c) That the Kaiser needed to take an improv class.
(d) That the Kaiser needed to stop whining.

3. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A demand for support from the French.
(b) A thick booklet containing an ultimatum from Germany.
(c) A pamphlet of German war propaganda.
(d) A paper saying that Germany had declared war on Russia.

4. What was the possibility of the appearance of the German Fleet in the English Channel in the beginning of Chapter 9 compared to?
(a) Plan 17.
(b) The Spanish Armada.
(c) The Schlieffen Plan.
(d) The Battle of Cannae.

5. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?
(a) Germany declared war on France.
(b) Russia declared war on Austria.
(c) Belgium declared war on Britain.
(d) France declared war on Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What simple message did Gallieni tell the French government when called before them?

2. Who dominated the British staff in the end of Chapter 14?

3. What was the medieval city of Louvain known for?

4. Which of these was not one of the three military minds that thought the war would last years, not months?

5. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?

(see the answer key)

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