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

2. Were the French unaware of the possibility of an attack from the German right wing?
(a) No. They just didn’t care.
(b) No. They counted on it.
(c) Yes. It was inconceivable for them.
(d) Yes. They never saw it coming.

3. What state were the Belgian troops in when war was declared?
(a) They were ill-disciplined and untidy.
(b) They were average, able to keep up with the Germans and French.
(c) They were conscripted, and had gone home for the winter.
(d) They were a model of discipline and honor.

4. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?
(a) He was a war hero with scars, while everyone else was spoiled aristocracy.
(b) He was a champion when others were afraid.
(c) He had clear goals while others did not know what they wanted.
(d) He was the most academic of them all.

5. When the British fleet is sent to the safety of its war base, Churchill says what is a “nightmare gone forever” (93)?
(a) A surprise torpedo attack.
(b) An attack by the German navy.
(c) A storm at sea.
(d) Running out of coal for the ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country created Plan 17?

2. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?

3. What did Kaiser William II mean when he said, “If only someone had told me beforehand that England would take up arms against us!” (120)?

4. Why did the French insist that Russia attack by the 15th day of war, regardless of its readiness?

5. Which of these was not one of the three military minds that thought the war would last years, not months?

(see the answer key)

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