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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. Why did the Belgians not have any heavy artillery?
(a) The Russian company hired to make it had requisitioned it for war.
(b) The Belgians had scoffed at the idea of heavy artillery.
(c) The Austrian company hired to make it had botched the job.
(d) The German company hired to make it had delayed deliveries.

2. 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 pamphlet of German war propaganda.
(c) A paper saying that Germany had declared war on Russia.
(d) A thick booklet containing an ultimatum from Germany.

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

4. Who was the Home Secretary of Britain when the war began?
(a) Joseph Joffre.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Sir Henry Kitchener.

5. In the end of Chapter 4, how many infantry divisions did Joffre think he could count on from England?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?

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

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

5. Why did the German General Staff believe that Britain belligerency would not affect the war?

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