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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Americans chief war priorities?
(a) Free American Prisoners of War.
(b) Defeat Japan as quick as possible.
(c) Defeat France and go on to defeat Hitler.
(d) Defeat Hitler as quick as possible and go on to defeat Japan.

2. What illness struck Churchill after his car accident?
(a) Paratyphoid fever.
(b) Lung Cancer.
(c) Small Pox.
(d) Gangrene.

3. What event finally helped lift a great weight off of Churchill and paved the way for building his political career again?
(a) Publishing his third book.
(b) Acceptance into the Labour party.
(c) Being cleared of blame for the Dardanelles incident.
(d) Appointment to Chancellor of Securities.

4. What was Churchill's drink of choice?
(a) Soda and Vodka.
(b) Red Wine.
(c) Gin and Tonic.
(d) Soda and Whiskey.

5. What happened to Churchill during the general election of 1945?
(a) He lost his Clementine.
(b) He was not elected.
(c) He had a resounding re-election.
(d) He lost his battle to cancer.

6. What is Boniface?
(a) European treaty.
(b) Nightly air raids.
(c) Raw intelligence intercepts.
(d) Russian spy network.

7. How did Churchill feel about his failure to command attention while speaking?
(a) Resolved to improve.
(b) Very angry.
(c) Hurt and humiliated.
(d) Indifferent.

8. Whom did Hitler agree to divide Poland with?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Cook.
(d) Attlee.

9. Who replaced Asquith as Prime Minister?
(a) Tony Blair.
(b) Clement Attlee.
(c) Lloyd George.
(d) Margaret Thatcher.

10. Whom was irritated by Charles de Gaulle's arrogance?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Stalin.

11. Who said, "I think we can generally say today that Hitler's dictatorship is gradually breaking down" before the beginning of WWII?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Josef Stalin.
(d) Clement Attlee.

12. What attack inspired Japanese descent on Pearl Harbor a year later?
(a) Taranto.
(b) Austrian invasion.
(c) United States joining the war.
(d) Matsumoto.

13. Conventional conservatives regarded Churchill as:
(a) Demeaning.
(b) Unsound.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Leadership material.

14. What medical problem hit Churchill during his trip to Washington D.C.?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Heart Attack.
(c) Chicken Pox.
(d) Shingles.

15. What did Lloyd George believe was upsetting Churchill's balance?
(a) His fear of flying.
(b) His support of socialism.
(c) His anti-Bolshevik obession.
(d) The after-affects of Churchill's New York accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Clementine's only true interest?

2. According to Churchill, what threatened Europe's common values?

3. Which Prime Minister recognized Churchill's worth?

4. Why did Britain send thousands of troops to Russia after the collapse of the Czech government?

5. In 1941, what country's abandonment of neutrality could change the direction of the war?

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