Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What instrument was played at King Edward VII’s funeral?
2. Why did the German General Staff believe that Britain belligerency would not affect the war?
3. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?
4. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?
5. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.
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. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?
5. 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?
6. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?
7. 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).
8. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?
9. 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?
10. What was the day called Der Tag?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the public feeling throughout the Allied countries regarding the rumors and hopes of Russia’s aid and its limitless manpower, as described in Chapter 20.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the psychological effect that the Russian had on Germans, summarized by the short phrase “ ‘Kosaken kommen!’ (The Cossacks are coming!)” (270) in Chapter 15.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the various stages and evolution of the Schlieffen Plan as broken down in Chapter 2 (pages 20-21).
|
This section contains 818 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
