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

2. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A paper saying that Germany had declared war on Russia.
(b) A pamphlet of German war propaganda.
(c) A thick booklet containing an ultimatum from Germany.
(d) A demand for support from the French.

3. How fast did Albert read books?
(a) One per day.
(b) One per month.
(c) Two per day.
(d) Two per week.

4. What was the one precaution the German commanders did not plan for?
(a) Flexibility.
(b) Train traffic.
(c) Rest.
(d) Supplies.

5. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

5. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?

Short Essay Questions

1. While the Germans had defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian war that ended in 1870, what condition was France in when World War I began just over 40 years later?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What was the day called Der Tag?

7. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?

8. 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?

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

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

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