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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (Chapters 15-19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous location lay between Mons and Brussels?
(a) Paris.
(b) The Ardennes.
(c) Waterloo.
(d) Berlin.

2. On what day did a small detachment of the Russian army open the offensive into East Prussia?
(a) August 14.
(b) August 15.
(c) August 13.
(d) August 12.

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

4. What state were the Belgian troops in when war was declared?
(a) They were ill-disciplined and untidy.
(b) They were conscripted, and had gone home for the winter.
(c) They were average, able to keep up with the Germans and French.
(d) They were a model of discipline and honor.

5. Why did Brussels go “mad with excitement” in Chapter 11 (176)?
(a) They had received news of the German army’s surrender.
(b) The city held a war rally.
(c) They had received news of their army repulsing the German attack the day before.
(d) They had heard that war was declared on Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?

2. How did Clausewitz claim one could win public opinion?

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

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

5. What instrument was played at King Edward VII’s funeral?

(see the answer key)

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