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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, A Prime Minister Alone, 1940-1941.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Conventional conservatives regarded Churchill as:
(a) Demeaning.
(b) Leadership material.
(c) Unsound.
(d) Brilliant.

2. Who said, "I think we can generally say today that Hitler's dictatorship is gradually breaking down" before the beginning of WWII?
(a) Josef Stalin.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Clement Attlee.

3. What was Churchill's relationship with his father?
(a) Heavily relying on each other.
(b) One of disapproval.
(c) One of admiration.
(d) He had no relationship with his father.

4. Whom promoted the idea of French resistance?
(a) Jean Joseph Guieu.
(b) Louis André Bon.
(c) Jean-Baptiste Cervoni.
(d) Charles de Gaulle.

5. In the century since Trafalgar, who had been the unchallenged Mistress of the Seas?
(a) The United States Navy.
(b) The Deutsche Marine.
(c) La Royale.
(d) The Royal Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act made Churchill one of the best known young men in Britain?

2. In 1941, what country's abandonment of neutrality could change the direction of the war?

3. What was the riskiest move a British Parliamentarian can make?

4. What was Hitler's most menacing rearmament measure?

5. Churchill was taken on the expedition to Northwest India occupying what position?

(see the answer key)

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