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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bigger a division or a corps?

2. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?

3. How many corps did the German army have?

4. What order did the First Lord Churchill give when he heard of events in Austria in Chapter 7?

5. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 2 it is revealed that the alliances and counter-alliances of the various powers of Europe had created a “heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws” (18). How does this complex web of alliances help lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?

3. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?

4. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

5. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?

6. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?

7. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?

8. How does the breakdown of German corps on their left, center, and right at the end of Chapter 2 (26) give the appearance of a sweeping hammer blow?

9. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?

10. While the Germans had defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian war that ended in 1870, what condition was France in when World War I began just over 40 years later?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the public feeling throughout the Allied countries regarding the rumors and hopes of Russia’s aid and its limitless manpower, as described in Chapter 20.

Essay Topic 2

What did Paris look like in Chapter 20, with the German invasion force nearly at the gates?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the objectives of the French and German attacks that culminated in the Battle of the Frontiers.

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