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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. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?
(a) Because they did not care about it.
(b) Because the German leadership did not publish the response.
(c) Because they did not read the newspapers.
(d) Because it had not been sent yet.

2. What is the bigger a division or a corps?
(a) A division.
(b) They are two words for the same thing.
(c) A corps.
(d) They are made up of different kinds of soldiers and cannot be counted the same.

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

4. What did Kaiser William II mean when he said, “If only someone had told me beforehand that England would take up arms against us!” (120)?
(a) That he saw England as an extension of the Russian war effort.
(b) That the Germans did not think England would join France in the war.
(c) That he never even considered the possibility.
(d) That the English lied to him.

5. Why did the German General Staff believe that Britain belligerency would not affect the war?
(a) They expected to defeat the British at sea and keep them from reaching the mainland.
(b) They thought it would be over in four months.
(c) They did not think the British could fight very well.
(d) They wanted to prove themselves better than all other Europeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the wave of financial panic shut down in London?

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

3. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?

5. In the end of Chapter 4, how many infantry divisions did Joffre think he could count on from England?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What was Plan 17?

7. 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?

8. 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).

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

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

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