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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, The Center of Events, 1910-1915.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of student was Churchill in his early school years?
(a) He did not attend school until his teens.
(b) He was always at the top of his class.
(c) He was a terrible student.
(d) He enjoyed school immensely.

2. What was the most memorable episode during Churchill's time at the Home Office?
(a) Tonypandy.
(b) Georgetown fire.
(c) Jack the Ripper.
(d) Peter the Painter.

3. Which appointment brought Churchill to the forefront of Britain's involvement in Europe's growing military confrontation?
(a) Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
(b) First Lord of the Temporal.
(c) Lord Chancellor's Department Committee.
(d) First Lord of the Admiralty.

4. Whom did Churchill marry?
(a) Elizabeth Bates.
(b) Bernadine Harper.
(c) Clementine Hozier.
(d) Caroline Mays.

5. How did Churchill refer to his nanny?
(a) His "Morning Star".
(b) His "Angel from Heaven".
(c) His "Cantacerous Nursemaid".
(d) His "Greedy Governess".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author, John Keegan, grow up?

2. What fuel did the Queen Elizabeth class of fast battleships run on?

3. What disease took the life of Churchill's father?

4. What famous Churchill line did the author first hear?

5. Which child later became Churchill's official biographer?

(see the answer key)

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