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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (Chapters 10-14).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What former U.S president was present at the funeral of Edward VII?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

2. How many German men were being assembled along the Belgian and French frontiers?
(a) 6,000,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 1,500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

3. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
(a) 11,000.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. Why did the Council in Britain order at the last minute that only four out of the six divisions be sent to France?
(a) An invasion scare.
(b) A German Zepplin bombing of London.
(c) The French declared they did not neex six divisions to help them.
(d) A German landing on British soil.

5. Which of these was a chapter title from the book Germany and the Next War?
(a) "The Right for World Peace.”
(b) "The Right for German Dominion.”
(c) "The Duty to Keep the Peace.”
(d) “The Duty to Make War.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sukhomlinov belive was superior to the bullet?

2. On August 24, after days of terrible news of the disaster of Plan 17, what did Joffre finally tell Messimy?

3. How did general Joffre want to treat the Belgian army?

4. On what day was Brussels occupied by the Germans?

5. What did the wave of financial panic shut down in London?

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