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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. Instead of a double envelopment of France’s armies, what did Schlieffen settle on?
(a) A heavily one-sided left wing.
(b) A heavily one-sided right wing.
(c) An attack through the center.
(d) An attack from the rear.

2. While the German ships in Chapter 10 sailed through the night, dogged by a British ship, what did their inferior coal do?
(a) Polluted the air more than any other ship for a hundred miles around.
(b) Caused a fire in the ship’s engines.
(c) Blotched the moonlit sky with black clouds.
(d) Burned clean because of the German’s superior engines.

3. Who was asked to be the Governor of Paris and to direct its defense?
(a) Joffre.
(b) Poincare.
(c) Gallieni.
(d) Sir John French.

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

5. How many men did Kitchener announce the Britain must be prepared to put into the field?
(a) An army of millions.
(b) An army of at least 50 divisions.
(c) An army of 12 divisions.
(d) An army of 100,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The destruction of what army was the German general von Kluck’s task?

2. What does Tuchman say “cast a long shadow upon the world” (137)?

3. Right from the first day of invasion the Germans shot both Belgian civilians and who else?

4. What was the primary Allied war aim as expressed by Foreign Minister Sazonov?

5. What haunted Ludendorff as he directed the German Eighth Army to attack Samsonov’s Russian army?

(see the answer key)

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