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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. What part of the French uniform did the former War Minister M. Etienne refuse to give up?
2. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?
3. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)
4. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?
5. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Plan 17?
2. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What was the day called Der Tag?
6. 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.
7. 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?
8. 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).
9. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?
10. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Explain the various stages and evolution of the Schlieffen Plan as broken down in Chapter 2 (pages 20-21).
Essay Topic 3
Explain the meaning and false optimism of the statement “You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees” (119) from Chapter 9.
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