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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 is the bigger a division or a corps?
(a) A division.
(b) A corps.
(c) They are made up of different kinds of soldiers and cannot be counted the same.
(d) They are two words for the same thing.

2. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?
(a) Russia declared war on Austria.
(b) Belgium declared war on Britain.
(c) Germany declared war on France.
(d) France declared war on Germany.

3. The destruction of what army was the German general von Kluck’s task?
(a) The Russian army.
(b) The Belgian army.
(c) The British Expeditionary Force.
(d) The French army.

4. When the Germans began shooting civilians and burning towns and cities, what were they compared to?
(a) Aetius the Roman.
(b) Geiseric the Vandal.
(c) Alaric the Goth.
(d) Attila the Hun.

5. How quickly did Ludendorff leave when he learned of his promotion to Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army in the East?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) One day.
(c) One hour.
(d) Three quarters of an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sir John’s desire to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force from the continent was driven by what fear?

2. What did the Russian soldiers do when they saw an airplane, regardless of whose side it was on?

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

4. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?

5. What did Foch say was the first condition of victory?

(see the answer key)

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