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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 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 raise more soldiers and prepare for war.
(d) He decided to visit Berlin to calm things down.

2. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?
(a) He had clear goals while others did not know what they wanted.
(b) He was a champion when others were afraid.
(c) He was a war hero with scars, while everyone else was spoiled aristocracy.
(d) He was the most academic of them all.

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

4. Which of these was not one of the three military minds that thought the war would last years, not months?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Moltke.
(c) Kitchener.
(d) Joffre.

5. Which of these was a chapter title from the book Germany and the Next War?
(a) "The Right for German Dominion.”
(b) "The Right for World Peace.”
(c) "The Duty to Keep the Peace.”
(d) “The Duty to Make War.”

Short Answer Questions

1. After Grey convinced the House that war was a grave possibility, what did he tell Churchill was next to do?

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

3. What did Kaiser William II say to M. Pichon of France at dinner that caused a fuss?

4. What country was Bethmann referring to when he said, “it was like striking a man from behind while he was fighting for his life against two assailants” (129)

5. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the day called Der Tag?

2. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

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

5. 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.

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

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

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. 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?

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