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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the largest metropolitan area in the late 1800s?
(a) New York
(b) London
(c) Berlin
(d) Miami

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

3. Who hears the news of the German breakthrough on the radio?
(a) Sarah Churchill
(b) Elizabeth Churchill
(c) Abigail Churchill
(d) Mary Churchill

4. What is considered one of the biggest sins by the British?
(a) Having too much money
(b) Lying
(c) Arrogance
(d) Cowardice

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Canada is acquired by whom?
(a) Grand River Company
(b) Hudson Bay Company
(c) California Gold Company
(d) East India Company

12. What is Winston's brother named?
(a) Henry
(b) Alexander
(c) Jack
(d) Phillip

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

14. Serving at certain posts in the possessions is often based on what?
(a) School
(b) Knowledge of the area
(c) Personality
(d) Family status

15. Where are the headquarters for the Prime Minister located?
(a) A military base
(b) A bunker
(c) A palace
(d) The Parliament building

Short Answer Questions

1. After the U.S. gains independence, what is the Empire's greatest possession?

2. Daughters who do not marry in the late 1800s become almost what?

3. What percentage of the world's merchant ships fly the British flag?

4. Life at which of the following foreign posts is considered not too bad?

5. What do many Britons suffer from in the possessions?

(see the answer keys)

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