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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 kind of student was Churchill in his early school years?

2. Where did the author, John Keegan, grow up?

3. What was Churchill's primary task while serving in India?

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

5. Churchill was committed to what idea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Whom were Churchill's children?

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

9. Why was Churchill skeptical of expanding British Imperial holdings?

10. What did Churchill do after leaving the Army?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Churchill feel about communism? How did this view affect Churchill's willingness to work with Stalin during WWII?

Essay Topic 2

Churchill experienced three heavy blows between the late 1920s and early 1930s. Name and discuss these three events.

Essay Topic 3

Churchill read voraciously while with the military stationed in India. List and discuss the books and/or authors Churchill read while in India. Discuss why these particular books and/or author were important to Churchill.

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