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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Winston develop at Harrow?
(a) A stammer
(b) A gambling problem
(c) A crush on the headmistress
(d) A goal to become Prime Minister

2. Where is Churchill when Hitler invades Poland?
(a) London
(b) Dunkirk
(c) Dublin
(d) Chartwell

3. What does Churchill never attend?
(a) Parliament
(b) Press conferences
(c) Church
(d) Parties

4. Where is the family's country home?
(a) Kent
(b) Scotland
(c) The French wine region
(d) Dunkirk

5. Winston's mother's family fought in what war?
(a) Crusades
(b) WWI
(c) Revolutionary War
(d) Prussian War

Short Answer Questions

1. The Parliament season ends with what?

2. Most people in the upper class in the late 1800s prefer which of their homes?

3. What is the headquarters of the Prime Minister known as?

4. Randolph's mother borrows baby supplies from whom?

5. The British Empire covers how much of the world in the 1800s?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Churchill's feelings and actions about Hitler and Mussolini change?

2. Why does Churchill consider himself an underdog? How does this affect him?

3. What military school does Winston attend? What are his experiences there like?

4. What is life in London like for women in the 1900s? Describe some of the things that women face.

5. What was England's place in the world during the 1900s?

6. What is the relationship like between Winston and his parents? Who cares for Winston?

7. How do the people in other countries and possessions feel about the British? Why?

8. Why does the family move to Dublin? Why do they move back to London?

9. What is Jennie and Randolph's relationship like? How do they spend their time?

10. How was someone accepted for posts in the foreign service in the British Empire?

(see the answer keys)

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