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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Enchantress?

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

4. What kind of student was Churchill in his early school years?

5. Which country chose to make itself the dominant military State?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Churchill's social life like?

2. What kind of student was Churchill?

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

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

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

6. What happened as a result of the British being obligated by treaty to defend Belgium?

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

8. What things excluded Lord Randolph Churchill from political office?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What state was Europe in when Churchill became Prime Minister? How did Churchill react to these conditions?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Churchill had a gut sympathy for fighters? What specific instances give proof of this sympathy?

Essay Topic 3

Churchill and George Washington had many similarities in the ways they looked at the wars they were commanding. What were some similarities between the Revolutionary War and World War II? Discuss some of the challenges each faced respectively and how they each chose to handle them.

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