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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 20-Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the correspondent Arthur Moore describe the Allied armies in his report?
(a) On the defensive, but not all was lost.
(b) As fresh and ready to for victory.
(c) As battered about a bit but still ready to put up a fight.
(d) As retreating and broken.

2. Why did Germany want Turkey as an ally?
(a) To attack the Russians with Turkish soldiers.
(b) To fight Lawrence of Arabia.
(c) To close off Russia’s access to the world via the Black Sea.
(d) To annoy the British ships in the area.

3. When the German ships were allowed to enter the Dardanelles, what was the order for the forts to do if British ships followed?
(a) To fire on them.
(b) To send them away with a stern warning.
(c) To fire at them with a surprise torpedo attack.
(d) To let them pass.

4. The Germans were obsessively concerned about violations of what?
(a) International peace.
(b) International rugby tournaments.
(c) International law.
(d) International war.

5. What did Foch say was the first condition of victory?
(a) The discipline of war.
(b) The destruction of the enemy.
(c) The will to conquer.
(d) The desire for freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the two German corps that were supposed to be at the junction of Hausen and Bulow’s armies?

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

3. The German fear of what did not run as deep as their commitment to Socialism?

4. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?

5. What does Tuchman say “cast a long shadow upon the world” (137)?

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