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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many weeks did the Germans estimate Russia would need to mobilize its armies?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) Five weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six weeks.

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

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

5. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?
(a) Because it had not been sent yet.
(b) Because they did not read the newspapers.
(c) Because they did not care about it.
(d) Because the German leadership did not publish the response.

6. How many “prongs” would Russia have in its invasion of Germany (65)?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

7. What does King Albert decide to try after Germany refuses to respond to formal messages to prevent a war?
(a) He decides to try a private appeal to the Kaiser.
(b) He decided to try a private phone call with the Kaiser.
(c) He decided to visit Berlin to calm things down.
(d) He decided to raise more soldiers and prepare for war.

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

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

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

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 German company hired to make it had delayed deliveries.
(c) The Belgians had scoffed at the idea of heavy artillery.
(d) The Austrian company hired to make it had botched the job.

12. How did Clausewitz claim one could win public opinion?
(a) By giving the people what they want.
(b) By gaining victories and the enemy’s capital.
(c) By outspending your opponents.
(d) By outsmarting your opponents.

13. 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 a model of discipline and honor.
(c) They were average, able to keep up with the Germans and French.
(d) They were ill-disciplined and untidy.

14. When King Albert of Belgium rejected the German ultimatum, what did he think the consequences would be?
(a) That Britain and France would run to their aid.
(b) That Germany would see the error of its ways and relent.
(c) That they would be grave and terrible.
(d) That Belgium would triumph over Germany’s armies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Schlieffen’s last words about the right wing?

2. What was the one precaution the German commanders did not plan for?

3. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)

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

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