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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (Chapter 6-9).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument was played at King Edward VII’s funeral?
(a) Drums, bagpipes, and flutes.
(b) Horns and drums.
(c) Drums and bagpipes.
(d) Horns, drums, and bagpipes.

2. What did the book The Great Illusion try to prove?
(a) That war was a human necessity.
(b) That war was inconvenient.
(c) That war made you strong.
(d) That war had become vain.

3. Instead of a double envelopment of France’s armies, what did Schlieffen settle on?
(a) An attack from the rear.
(b) An attack through the center.
(c) A heavily one-sided right wing.
(d) A heavily one-sided left wing.

4. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) England.
(d) Russia.

5. When Grey sent telegrams asking for a confirmation of Belgian neutrality, who responded within an hour?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Italy.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose funeral sets the scene in Chapter 1?

2. What was the one precaution the German commanders did not plan for?

3. Why did the Belgians not have any heavy artillery?

4. How did Clausewitz claim one could win public opinion?

5. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)

(see the answer key)

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