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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. How many corps did the German army have?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

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

3. What did the President of France announce was the only form of fighting suited to the French soldier?
(a) The offensive.
(b) The agressive.
(c) The defensive.
(d) The passive.

4. What does King Albert decide to try after Germany refuses to respond to formal messages to prevent a war?
(a) He decided to try a private phone call with the Kaiser.
(b) He decides to try a private appeal to the Kaiser.
(c) He decided to visit Berlin to calm things down.
(d) He decided to raise more soldiers and prepare for war.

5. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?
(a) That war had become vain.
(b) That war was inconvenient.
(c) That war was a human necessity.
(d) That war made you strong.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?

3. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?

4. Why did France order a ten-kilometer withdrawal from its frontier on July 30?

5. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Plan 17?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

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. 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?

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