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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 German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
2. How fast did Albert read books?
3. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)
4. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?
5. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?
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. How was the news of war received in France?
5. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
6. 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?
7. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?
8. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?
9. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the statement “Instantly converted from Marx to Mars” (74) at the beginning of Chapter 6.
Essay Topic 2
The “Schlieffen Plan” was primarily aimed at knocking France out of a war before Russia could mobilize its armies to help. Explain how this plan became the obsessive focal point of all German plans before war began.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the views of President Woodrow Wilson and the overall attitude of the United States towards the war and how the United States should be involved.
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