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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to secure their Indian Empire, the British have to control the southern part of what?
(a) Newfoundland
(b) Africa
(c) South America
(d) Australia

2. Churchill believes that he controls what?
(a) The stock market
(b) The German army
(c) His own fate
(d) His emotions

3. How does Churchill feel about the Cabinet War Rooms?
(a) He likes it there.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He hates them.
(d) He was not in them until 1956.

4. The most successful years of Churchill's life happen after what event?
(a) Dunkirk
(b) Hiroshima
(c) WWI
(d) Pearl Harbor

5. What is Winston like at school?
(a) Grateful
(b) Rebellious
(c) Timid
(d) Happy

6. What does Churchill often do during the raids?
(a) Watches the television for news
(b) Runs out to look at the damages
(c) Sleeps
(d) Paints landscapes

7. Who is Churchill friendly with that he later will not be?
(a) Blair
(b) Stalin
(c) Wilson
(d) Hitler

8. Randolph decides to do what as a career?
(a) Doctor
(b) Clergy
(c) Journalist
(d) Lawyer

9. What is Randolph appointed?
(a) Ambassador to Brazil
(b) Duke of Kent
(c) Prime Minister
(d) Chancellor of the Exchequer

10. What percentage of miners was British?
(a) One tenth
(b) One-quarter
(c) One-third
(d) Nine tenths

11. What career did Churchill have?
(a) Teacher
(b) Accountant
(c) Doctor
(d) Newspaper reporter

12. What does Winston develop at Harrow?
(a) A goal to become Prime Minister
(b) A crush on the headmistress
(c) A stammer
(d) A gambling problem

13. Why is Winston enrolled at a school in Brighton?
(a) The school has a better math program
(b) He was beaten at St. George's
(c) The school in Brighton is less expensive
(d) It is closer to home

14. What brings the family back to London?
(a) The Churchill estate burns
(b) Randolph enters a business deal
(c) Randolph is elected to Parliament
(d) Winston's schooling

15. Winston's father is the seventh Duke of _______________.
(a) Costwald
(b) Marlborough
(c) Kent
(d) Dunkirk

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nazi threat spread to where?

2. How many warships does the British Navy have in the late 1800s?

3. Churchill likes movies about what topic?

4. Most people in the upper class in the late 1800s prefer which of their homes?

5. The book begins with the British Army retreating to which town?

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