View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lineage does Churchill's family descend from?
(a) Duke of Marlborough.
(b) Duke of Edinburg.
(c) Duke of Kent.
(d) Duke of Windsor.

2. What did Churchill choose to promote and protect rather than increase Army corps to compete with France and Germany?
(a) Private military corps.
(b) Royal Navy.
(c) Industrial/commercial strength.
(d) Royal Navy & industrial/commercial strength.

3. How did Churchill get into good schools?
(a) Through scholarship.
(b) Through his elite background.
(c) Through luck.
(d) Through bribery.

4. What was daughter, Mary Soams, description of her mother's nature?
(a) Strict but loving.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Shy but passionate.
(d) Submissive.

5. Churchill's mother was a:
(a) Rich American heiress.
(b) Nurse to wounded soldiers.
(c) Poor British waif.
(d) Strong influence for good in Churchill's life.

6. What was Churchill's battalion nicknamed while he was commanding the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers?
(a) New Army.
(b) Green Army.
(c) Failsiliers.
(d) Scotties.

7. During the Malakand Expedition, British troops held firm. Which group ran in the face of danger?
(a) Sikh.
(b) Sepoys
(c) Russian.
(d) Jain.

8. What army had the British regiment reforms of 1870-1880 been modeled after?
(a) French Army.
(b) Russian Army.
(c) United States Army.
(d) German Army.

9. How did Churchill win his soldiers' respect and affection?
(a) Through his motivational speeches.
(b) Through his humor.
(c) Through his displays of total indifference to danger.
(d) Through his aggressive tactics.

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

11. Whose biography did Churchill write?
(a) King George V's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His brother's.
(d) Queen Victoria's.

12. Whose needs did Churchill value as much as an employer or landlords?
(a) Government.
(b) His own.
(c) Working man.
(d) Women and children.

13. What fuel did the Queen Elizabeth class of fast battleships run on?
(a) Oil.
(b) Wood.
(c) Coal.
(d) Nuclear.

14. What was the first paper Churchill ever sign on to work for?
(a) Britain's Post.
(b) Floyd County Times.
(c) Bugle.
(d) Pioneer.

15. What was the Enchantress?
(a) A doomed battleship.
(b) Churchill's airplane.
(c) The Queen's airplane.
(d) The Admiralty yacht.

Short Answer Questions

1. Churchill's life was almost devoid of:

2. What color was Churchill's horse?

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

4. What had Churchill been sparked to do during his time in the military?

5. After learning of an outbreak of fighting in Northwest India, whom did Churchill telegraph to ask to join his military expedition?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 418 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample