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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What state were the Belgian troops in when war was declared?
(a) They were conscripted, and had gone home for the winter.
(b) They were ill-disciplined and untidy.
(c) They were average, able to keep up with the Germans and French.
(d) They were a model of discipline and honor.

3. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)
(a) That the Kaiser could not stop things that were now in motion.
(b) That the Kaiser could not play war games.
(c) That the Kaiser needed to stop whining.
(d) That the Kaiser needed to take an improv class.

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

5. Were the French unaware of the possibility of an attack from the German right wing?
(a) Yes. It was inconceivable for them.
(b) No. They just didn’t care.
(c) No. They counted on it.
(d) Yes. They never saw it coming.

6. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?
(a) The artillery.
(b) The cavalry.
(c) The bayonet.
(d) The tank.

7. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?
(a) He was a champion when others were afraid.
(b) He was the most academic of them all.
(c) He had clear goals while others did not know what they wanted.
(d) He was a war hero with scars, while everyone else was spoiled aristocracy.

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

9. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A pamphlet of German war propaganda.
(b) A paper saying that Germany had declared war on Russia.
(c) A thick booklet containing an ultimatum from Germany.
(d) A demand for support from the French.

10. The German army used against France was six times bigger in 1914 than it had been in 1870. How big was it?
(a) 3 million men.
(b) .5 million men.
(c) 1 million men.
(d) 1.5 million men.

11. 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.

12. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?
(a) King George of England.
(b) King Albert of Belgium.
(c) King William II of Germany.
(d) General Joffre of France.

13. What country created Plan 17?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.

14. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?
(a) The Germans crossed the Belgian border.
(b) The German ultimatum to Belgium was rejected.
(c) The French assured Britain to respect Belgian neutrality.
(d) The British sent their ultimatum to Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did France order a ten-kilometer withdrawal from its frontier on July 30?

2. Whose funeral sets the scene in Chapter 1?

3. What did Kaiser William II mean when he said, “If only someone had told me beforehand that England would take up arms against us!” (120)?

4. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?

5. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?

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