View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 6: Defence : Chapter 1, Attack & Defence, The People in Arms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Clausewitz views on fear in Book 2, Chapter 3?
(a) It should be ignored are irrelevant.
(b) It is a good condition to put the enemy in.
(c) It should be mastered by soldiers.
(d) A large army is less prone to it.

2. What effect can physical violence have on troops if they don't understand why violence should be used according to Clausewitz?
(a) Drop in morale.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Anticipation.
(d) Fear.

3. What does Clausewitz claim as a vital component of critical analysis?
(a) Have a classical education.
(b) Be from an aristocratic family.
(c) Investigation and evaluation of means used in warfare.
(d) Studying at 2 or more war colleges.

4. What does Clausewitz say indicates the will's resistance to a single blow?
(a) Endurance.
(b) Courage.
(c) Cowardliness.
(d) Staunchness.

5. When does no side get attacked, but still spend resources toward the war effort according to Clausewitz?
(a) When all sides move their troops.
(b) When all sides are fearful.
(c) When all sides are in defensive mode.
(d) When all sides attack an undefended province of the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is never final in war according to Clausewitz?

2. What is the foremost prominent factor in war according to Clausewitz?

3. What emotion does Clausewitz say should be used to make the enemy doubt the outcome of a war?

4. When does Clausewitz say "true" war first appeared?

5. Who said that the commander in chief of an army must resolve problems like great mathematicians, such as Newton and Euler?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 270 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample