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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. What was “an unimportant obstacle” (18) to Schlieffen, along with the River Pregel?
(a) War with France.
(b) Belgian neutrality.
(c) The road home.
(d) The Rhine River in Germany.

2. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Calvin Coolidge.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

3. How many weeks did the Germans estimate Russia would need to mobilize its armies?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Five weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

4. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?
(a) Try to get behind the Russian armies.
(b) Split their own army into two wings.
(c) Attack one wing before the other.
(d) Attack both wings at once.

5. When the German ships were allowed to enter the Dardanelles, what was the order for the forts to do if British ships followed?
(a) To fire at them with a surprise torpedo attack.
(b) To send them away with a stern warning.
(c) To let them pass.
(d) To fire on them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Italy decide to do “with the clarity of insight possessed by the Latin intellect”?

3. Instead of a double envelopment of France’s armies, what did Schlieffen settle on?

4. How many German men were being assembled along the Belgian and French frontiers?

5. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?

(see the answer key)

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