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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had Belgium been independent?

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

3. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?

4. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?

5. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the news of war received in France?

2. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?

10. What was the day called Der Tag?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why when Wilson asked Foch what the smallest British military force was that would be of assistance to the French, Foch answered: “A single British soldier–and we will see to it that he is killed” (49).

Essay Topic 2

Explain the rise of King Albert to the throne of Belgium, as well as how he had proved to be a better monarch than would have been expected.

Essay Topic 3

Why is the battle of the Marne remembered by the taxis?

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