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

2. How many weeks did the Germans estimate Russia would need to mobilize its armies?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

3. How many years had Belgium been independent?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Seventy-five.

4. Why did the French insist that Russia attack by the 15th day of war, regardless of its readiness?
(a) They wanted Germany to leave them alone.
(b) They knew Britain would join them if the Russians did.
(c) They wanted Germany to be forced to fight on two fronts.
(d) They knew Russia would utterly defeat the Germans.

5. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?
(a) The tank.
(b) The cavalry.
(c) The artillery.
(d) The bayonet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?

2. What did Lloyd George think that the boom of Big Ben sounded like?

3. What was the prime objective that governed French policy?

4. How long did the old Field Marshal Moltke think the next war could last?

5. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?

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

3. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. What was the day called Der Tag?

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