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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 Foch say was the first condition of victory?
(a) The will to conquer.
(b) The destruction of the enemy.
(c) The desire for freedom.
(d) The discipline of war.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When King Albert of Belgium rejected the German ultimatum, what did he think the consequences would be?

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

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

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

5. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Plan 17?

2. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 2 it is revealed that the alliances and counter-alliances of the various powers of Europe had created a “heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws” (18). How does this complex web of alliances help lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?

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

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

6. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

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

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

9. 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).

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

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