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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 20-Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Sedan.
(d) Their defeat at Waterloo.

2. Which of the two Russian armies did the German Eighth Army choose to attack with all of its strength before the other could come to help?
(a) Samsonov’s army.
(b) Joffre’s army.
(c) Sir John French’s army.
(d) Rennenkampf’s army.

3. The Germans were obsessively concerned about violations of what?
(a) International rugby tournaments.
(b) International war.
(c) International peace.
(d) International law.

4. With the situation going from bad to worse, what two rivers does Joffre consider as new points for the Allies to fall back on?
(a) The Marne or the Rhine.
(b) The Rhine or the Seine.
(c) The Seine or the Vistula.
(d) The Marne or the Seine.

5. What was the gateway into Belgium from Germany?
(a) Brussels.
(b) Paris.
(c) Liege.
(d) Alsace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast did Albert read books?

2. What famous location lay between Mons and Brussels?

3. What anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo had almost arrived when the British reached it on their march to Mons?

4. What did Kaiser William II say to M. Pichon of France at dinner that caused a fuss?

5. What did the German armies do during the first four days of Dubail’s and Castelnau’s offensive into Lorraine?

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