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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How fast did Albert read books?
(a) Two per week.
(b) One per month.
(c) One per day.
(d) Two per day.

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

5. Whose funeral sets the scene in Chapter 1?
(a) William of Orange.
(b) King Albert of Belgium.
(c) William II of Germany.
(d) Edward VII of England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Home Secretary of Britain when the war began?

2. When the British fleet is sent to the safety of its war base, Churchill says what is a “nightmare gone forever” (93)?

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

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

5. What did Moltke’s nickname der traurige Julius mean in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was unique about the thoughts of the American Minister in Brussels about what the Belgian king’s 12-year-old son was thinking as he watched his father reject the German ultimatum?

2. What other country besides Germany planned to use the open frontier of Belgium as a route of invasion, however this time only after the Germans had violated Belgian neutrality? How did they plan to do this?

3. While the Germans had defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian war that ended in 1870, what condition was France in when World War I began just over 40 years later?

4. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?

5. Why did Britain and France create joint military plans in 1905 after Russia was defeated by the Japanese on the other side of the world?

6. What was meant by the line, “'When you march into France’ he said, ‘let the last man on the right brush the Channel with is sleeve’" (25).

7. How does the breakdown of German corps on their left, center, and right at the end of Chapter 2 (26) give the appearance of a sweeping hammer blow?

8. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?

9. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?

10. What were the two parts of Britain’s ultimatum to Germany, of which only the second part was truly an ultimatum?

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