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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (Chapters 10-14).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On August 24, after days of terrible news of the disaster of Plan 17, what did Joffre finally tell Messimy?
(a) That the French must go on the defensive.
(b) That it is the fault of the British that everything went wrong.
(c) That the French must still continue to attack, whatever the cost.
(d) That he would lose his coat before admitting defeat.

2. 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.

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

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

5. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
(a) 10,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 11,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many “prongs” would Russia have in its invasion of Germany (65)?

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

3. How many corps did the German army have?

4. When the voyage of the Goeben and Breslau ultimately shut off Russian access from the Black Sea, how much did Russian exports drop?

5. What kind of units were the first Germans to cross over the Belgian border?

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