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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 preparations had the Russians made specifically regarding their promise to help the French?
(a) A decent amount, but there was much still to do.
(b) Everything. They were ready like a well-oiled machine.
(c) None. They had to improvise.
(d) Very little. They had not had much time.

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

3. Though the Russian defeat at Tannenberg was terrible, what good did it accomplish for France?
(a) It showed the world that the French were the only hope of stopping the Germans.
(b) It convinced Britain that they needed to help France.
(c) It distracted the German high command, who could think of nothing but the Slavic hordes in East Prussia.
(d) It caused the Germans to send two corps from the Western Front to the Eastern Front.

4. What did the German navy eventually resort to as a belated effort to break the British naval blockade?
(a) A desperate attack by sea.
(b) The use of their main fleet.
(c) The use of U-boats.
(d) Declaring the sea a neutral zone for all nations.

5. What was the situation of the German navy and merchant shipping by the end of August?
(a) They had disappeared from the open seas.
(b) They had resorted to incessant U-boat attacks.
(c) They had conquered the seas.
(d) They were gathering in the North Sea to fight with the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?

2. What did the British “requisition” (140) from the Turkish?

3. On August 24, after days of terrible news of the disaster of Plan 17, what did Joffre finally tell Messimy?

4. What country created Plan 17?

5. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?

(see the answer key)

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