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

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

3. Churchill's common dress was:
(a) Wool top coat and felt hat.
(b) Full cut trousers and hand-painted ties.
(c) Shapeless siren suit and stovepipe hat.
(d) Crisp khaki air force uniform.

4. Churchill had an unsurpassed skill for what?
(a) Religious Doctrine.
(b) Mathematics and Statistics.
(c) Track and Field.
(d) English history and English composition.

5. What did Keegan first find fascinating about Churchill?
(a) Churchill's accent.
(b) Churchill's wartime speeches.
(c) Churchill's educational pursuits.
(d) Churchill's marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Churchill choose to promote and protect rather than increase Army corps to compete with France and Germany?

2. Whose biography did Churchill write?

3. Churchill saw Britain as the incarnation of it's own:

4. What were Ark Royal and Iron Duke?

5. How did Churchill get into good schools?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Churchill during the Boer War?

2. During the time of increased German and American economic power, what did Churchill support, despite it becoming less popular with his party?

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

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

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

6. Whom did Churchill marry and why?

7. How did Churchill end up leading the 21st Lancers?

8. What happened in Tonypandy?

9. What country challenged Britain for dominance on the high seas?

10. While in the Army in India, what was Churchill's focus and passion?

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