The Mask of Command Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

John Keegan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Mask of Command Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

John Keegan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the nuclear age begin?
(a) With the automatic weapon.
(b) With the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(c) With the creation of nuclear power.
(d) With the creation of nuclear weaponry.

2. What was Alexander's preliminary goal during those years?
(a) To invade Greece.
(b) To invade China.
(c) To invade Persia.
(d) To invade the Roman Empire.

3. The author says, "Few today think of Hitler as a soldier. But it was as a soldier, quite as much as a politician or ____________ - the strangest of his delusions - that he thought of himself" (p. 235).
(a) A dancer.
(b) A musician.
(c) An artist.
(d) An actor.

4. Wellington was well known for having _____________ routine, which is credited for much of his success in planning campaigns.
(a) An unusual.
(b) An often changing.
(c) An exciting.
(d) An unvarying.

5. What else of each leader's is re-examined?
(a) His tactics.
(b) His family.
(c) His background.
(d) His socio-economic status.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Keegan, were all the leaders discussed earlier in this book heroic or unheroic?

2. What type of leader was Grant?

3. The regiment in which Hitler served was filled with the type of people Hitler longed to be with but what?

4. This chapter is a look into the future of what?

5. Why does the author cite Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis?

(see the answer key)

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