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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. What did Moltke’s nickname der traurige Julius mean in English?
(a) Gloomy George.
(b) Grumpy Gus.
(c) Grumpy Gale.
(d) Gloomy Gus.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The German fear of what did not run as deep as their commitment to Socialism?

2. What did the President of France announce was the only form of fighting suited to the French soldier?

3. If Schlieffen wanted to be bold in his plans, what did Moltke want to do?

4. What was the possibility of the appearance of the German Fleet in the English Channel in the beginning of Chapter 9 compared to?

5. What part of the French uniform did the former War Minister M. Etienne refuse to give up?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What kind of things did King Albert of Belgium hear when he visited Berlin in Chapter 8?

3. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?

4. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?

5. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.

6. How was the news of war received in France?

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. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?

9. 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?

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

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