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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (Chapter 6-9).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Italy decide to do “with the clarity of insight possessed by the Latin intellect”?
(a) Remain neutral.
(b) Side with Germany.
(c) Side with France.
(d) Attack Austria.

2. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?
(a) Doom, doom, doom.
(b) A clock striking 11 P.M.
(c) Gloom, gloom, gloom.
(d) Soon, soon, soon.

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

4. What was the one precaution the German commanders did not plan for?
(a) Flexibility.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Rest.
(d) Train traffic.

5. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
(a) To conscript men across Germany.
(b) To use reserve units in the front lines.
(c) To lower the military service age limit.
(d) To hire mercenaries from Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the wave of financial panic shut down in London?

2. How long did the old Field Marshal Moltke think the next war could last?

3. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?

4. What is the bigger a division or a corps?

5. Which of these was a chapter title from the book Germany and the Next War?

(see the answer key)

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