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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Four years.

4. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?
(a) Soon, soon, soon.
(b) Doom, doom, doom.
(c) Gloom, gloom, gloom.
(d) A clock striking 11 P.M.

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

6. In the end of Chapter 4, how many infantry divisions did Joffre think he could count on from England?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

7. 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.

8. How many years had Belgium been independent?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Fifty.
(d) One hundred.

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

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

11. Instead of a double envelopment of France’s armies, what did Schlieffen settle on?
(a) A heavily one-sided left wing.
(b) An attack through the center.
(c) A heavily one-sided right wing.
(d) An attack from the rear.

12. What was “an unimportant obstacle” (18) to Schlieffen, along with the River Pregel?
(a) The Rhine River in Germany.
(b) War with France.
(c) Belgian neutrality.
(d) The road home.

13. How long did the old Field Marshal Moltke think the next war could last?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 20 weeks.
(d) 30 years.

14. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
(a) 10,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 11,000.

15. 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) 1 million men.
(c) 1.5 million men.
(d) .5 million men.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Grey convinced the House that war was a grave possibility, what did he tell Churchill was next to do?

2. How many wives had Sukhomlinov had?

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

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

5. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?

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