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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. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?
(a) The Vietcong.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Chinese.

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

3. What humiliation in their past did the French want to avenge?
(a) Their defeat at Sedan.
(b) Their defeat at Hastings.
(c) Their defeat at sea by the Germans.
(d) Their defeat at Waterloo.

4. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?
(a) A clock striking 11 P.M.
(b) Soon, soon, soon.
(c) Gloom, gloom, gloom.
(d) Doom, doom, doom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?

2. What state were the Belgian troops in when war was declared?

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

4. How many weeks did the Germans estimate Russia would need to mobilize its armies?

5. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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