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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 instrument was played at King Edward VII’s funeral?
(a) Drums, bagpipes, and flutes.
(b) Drums and bagpipes.
(c) Horns and drums.
(d) Horns, drums, and bagpipes.

2. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?
(a) Austria.
(b) Russia.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

3. When the British fleet is sent to the safety of its war base, Churchill says what is a “nightmare gone forever” (93)?
(a) Running out of coal for the ships.
(b) A surprise torpedo attack.
(c) A storm at sea.
(d) An attack by the German navy.

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

5. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?
(a) For the British fleet to hide in port.
(b) For the British fleet to attack the German fleet.
(c) For the German fleet to attack the British fleet.
(d) For the British fleet not to disperse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?

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

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

5. How many “prongs” would Russia have in its invasion of Germany (65)?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Contrast the differences between the Elder von Moltke’s view of the next war being a long war and the general opinion of the younger generation who thought the next war would not feasibly last very long at all.

5. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. What was the day called Der Tag?

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

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