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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) Attack Austria.
(c) Side with Germany.
(d) Side with France.

2. 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 Japanese.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The Vietcong.
(d) The Germans.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country created Plan 17?

2. What signal let loose “the irresistible onrush of events” that led to war?

3. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?

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

5. What was the only country in Europe that did not have conscription?

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