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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Parliament season ends with what?
(a) Goodwood race
(b) Christmas
(c) Queen's all in mid-spring
(d) Easter

2. What does Churchill tell his country to prepare for?
(a) Food rationing
(b) A long war
(c) Nuclear warfare
(d) Defeat

3. Where did the family live in London?
(a) First Street
(b) Mayflower Lane
(c) Steeping Street
(d) St. James Street

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

5. The book begins with the British Army retreating to which town?
(a) Crawley
(b) Oakham
(c) Dunkirk
(d) Acle

6. How many warships does the British Navy have in the late 1800s?
(a) 170
(b) 720
(c) 330
(d) 54

7. Winston's mother's family fought in what war?
(a) Crusades
(b) Prussian War
(c) Revolutionary War
(d) WWI

8. The British Empire covers how much of the world in the 1800s?
(a) 10 percent
(b) 50 percent
(c) 25 percent
(d) 5 percent

9. Where did the family move to?
(a) Grayling
(b) Dublin
(c) Wales
(d) Paris

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

11. What does Randolph die from?
(a) Syphilis
(b) Malaria
(c) Cancer
(d) Alcohol poisoning

12. What percentage of the world's merchant ships fly the British flag?
(a) 25
(b) 75
(c) 50
(d) 10

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

14. Who is Winston's father?
(a) Henry
(b) Randolph
(c) Edward
(d) Charles

15. Women in the late 1800s in London have a hard time obtaining what?
(a) Marriages
(b) Divorces
(c) Social status
(d) Children

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Randolph appointed?

2. What helps save the British troops?

3. Where is the family's country home?

4. The Nazi threat spread to where?

5. Why is Winston enrolled at a school in Brighton?

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