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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. The German army used against France was six times bigger in 1914 than it had been in 1870. How big was it?
(a) 1 million men.
(b) 3 million men.
(c) .5 million men.
(d) 1.5 million men.

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

4. What signal let loose “the irresistible onrush of events” that led to war?
(a) Germany’s assurance to support Austria against Russian aggression.
(b) Russia promising to support Serbia against German aggression.
(c) Russia promising to support Serbia against Austrian aggression.
(d) Germany’s assurance to support Russia against Austrian aggression.

5. What was “an unimportant obstacle” (18) to Schlieffen, along with the River Pregel?
(a) The Rhine River in Germany.
(b) Belgian neutrality.
(c) War with France.
(d) The road home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the German General Staff believe that Britain belligerency would not affect the war?

2. What is the bigger a division or a corps?

3. What country created Plan 17?

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

5. When the British fleet is sent to the safety of its war base, Churchill says what is a “nightmare gone forever” (93)?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the day called Der Tag?

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

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 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).

7. 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?

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

9. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

10. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?

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