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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the authors' generation, which party was creating a social revolution?
(a) Labour party.
(b) Conservative party.
(c) Communist party.
(d) Whig party.

2. Which country was Britain obligated to defend by honoring it's treaty?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) U.S.

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

4. Where did the author, John Keegan, grow up?
(a) United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Soviet Union.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Churchill toured Britain, Canada and the United States for 4 months doing what?

2. Who did Churchill have a gut sympathy for?

3. While in India, Churchill wanted to acquire:

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

5. What lineage does Churchill's family descend from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Churchill accomplish while at Sandhurst military school?

2. What event hurt Churchill politically and forced his retirement?

3. What happened in Tonypandy?

4. What was the political climate when the author was a young adult in Britain?

5. What kinds of things tainted the line of the Duke of Marlborough for generations? Who restored it's good name?

6. How was Churchill able to qualify for British armed services?

7. How did Churchill's mother spend the time during her marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill?

8. What first caught John Keegan's attention about Churchill?

9. What did Jan Smuts and his "bitterenders" introduce the Western world to?

10. Churchill became president of the Board of Trade where he became familiar with those resisting British rule throughout the world. What groups did he admire and which groups did he despise?

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