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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 humiliation in their past did the French want to avenge?
(a) Their defeat at Hastings.
(b) Their defeat at sea by the Germans.
(c) Their defeat at Waterloo.
(d) Their defeat at Sedan.

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

3. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Vietcong.
(d) The Japanese.

4. What part of the French uniform did the former War Minister M. Etienne refuse to give up?
(a) The blue uniform.
(b) The red kepi.
(c) The red trousers.
(d) The white socks.

5. Why did the German General Staff believe that Britain belligerency would not affect the war?
(a) They wanted to prove themselves better than all other Europeans.
(b) They expected to defeat the British at sea and keep them from reaching the mainland.
(c) They thought it would be over in four months.
(d) They did not think the British could fight very well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?

2. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?

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

4. The German fear of what did not run as deep as their commitment to Socialism?

5. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?

(see the answer key)

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