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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the French uniform did the former War Minister M. Etienne refuse to give up?
(a) The white socks.
(b) The red trousers.
(c) The red kepi.
(d) The blue uniform.

2. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

3. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The escape at Dunkirk.
(c) Hannibal’s victory at Cannae.
(d) The defeat at Sedan.

4. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?
(a) The tanks.
(b) The cavalry.
(c) The reserves.
(d) The infantry.

5. What humiliation in their past did the French want to avenge?
(a) Their defeat at Hastings.
(b) Their defeat at Sedan.
(c) Their defeat at sea by the Germans.
(d) Their defeat at Waterloo.

6. How many men did Russia have available for military service?
(a) 5,000,000.
(b) 5,500,000.
(c) 6,000,000.
(d) 6,500,000.

7. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
(a) To lower the military service age limit.
(b) To conscript men across Germany.
(c) To hire mercenaries from Italy.
(d) To use reserve units in the front lines.

8. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?
(a) That war had become vain.
(b) That war was a human necessity.
(c) That war made you strong.
(d) That war was inconvenient.

9. What was the elder Moltke found reading on mobilization day in 1870?
(a) Germany and the Next War.
(b) The Lord of the Rings.
(c) Lady Audley’s Secret.
(d) The Great Illusion.

10. Which of these was a chapter title from the book Germany and the Next War?
(a) "The Right for German Dominion.”
(b) "The Right for World Peace.”
(c) "The Duty to Keep the Peace.”
(d) “The Duty to Make War.”

11. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?
(a) For the British fleet to hide in port.
(b) For the British fleet to attack the German fleet.
(c) For the British fleet not to disperse.
(d) For the German fleet to attack the British fleet.

12. Why did the Belgians not have any heavy artillery?
(a) The Russian company hired to make it had requisitioned it for war.
(b) The Belgians had scoffed at the idea of heavy artillery.
(c) The German company hired to make it had delayed deliveries.
(d) The Austrian company hired to make it had botched the job.

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

14. What signal let loose “the irresistible onrush of events” that led to war?
(a) Russia promising to support Serbia against German aggression.
(b) Germany’s assurance to support Russia against Austrian aggression.
(c) Russia promising to support Serbia against Austrian aggression.
(d) Germany’s assurance to support Austria against Russian aggression.

15. What was the prime objective that governed French policy?
(a) To avenge their defeat at Sedan in 1870.
(b) To enter the war allied to England.
(c) To win the war whatever the cost.
(d) To win the war with Plan 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?

2. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?

3. What did Italy decide to do “with the clarity of insight possessed by the Latin intellect”?

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

5. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?

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