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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (Chapters 15-19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Russia was so alarmed at the German ship Goeben arriving in Turkish waters, that it was even willing to give up its claim to what to keep the peace?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Berlin.
(d) The Crimea.

2. What preparations had the Russians made specifically regarding their promise to help the French?
(a) Everything. They were ready like a well-oiled machine.
(b) A decent amount, but there was much still to do.
(c) Very little. They had not had much time.
(d) None. They had to improvise.

3. While the German ships in Chapter 10 sailed through the night, dogged by a British ship, what did their inferior coal do?
(a) Burned clean because of the German’s superior engines.
(b) Polluted the air more than any other ship for a hundred miles around.
(c) Caused a fire in the ship’s engines.
(d) Blotched the moonlit sky with black clouds.

4. On the morning of the Battle of Mons, Sir John French estimated the German forces they were about to fight at one or two army corps plus cavalry. How large was it really?
(a) Sir John French was accurate in his assessment.
(b) Six corps and some cavalry.
(c) Sixteen corps but no cavalry.
(d) Four corps and three cavalry divisions.

5. What signal let loose “the irresistible onrush of events” that led to war?
(a) Germany’s assurance to support Austria against Russian aggression.
(b) Russia promising to support Serbia against German aggression.
(c) Germany’s assurance to support Russia against Austrian aggression.
(d) Russia promising to support Serbia against Austrian aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What haunted Ludendorff as he directed the German Eighth Army to attack Samsonov’s Russian army?

2. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)

3. Prittwitz, considering the Russian threat too great, decided the Germans should retire behind what river as previously planned?

4. After a day of fierce fighting, the British withdrew from Mons. What did the Germans do?

5. Which of the two Russian armies did the German Eighth Army choose to attack with all of its strength before the other could come to help?

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