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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. Whose needs did Churchill value as much as an employer or landlords?
(a) His own.
(b) Women and children.
(c) Government.
(d) Working man.

2. What did Lloyd George and Churchill battle over?
(a) To win a Parliamentary seat.
(b) Germany's role in the treaty of Versailles.
(c) How to spend funds.
(d) Churchill's speeches.

3. As a youth Churchill enjoyed:
(a) Musical recitals.
(b) English composition.
(c) Shadowing his father.
(d) Athletic pursuits.

4. Churchill left the Boer war to do what?
(a) Convalesce in hospital.
(b) Find love.
(c) Resume his search for a seat in Parliament.
(d) Return to his ailing mother.

5. The particular regiment that Churchill was a member of enjoyed what social benefits?
(a) Locally esteemed and emotionally secure.
(b) Large financial gains.
(c) World recognition.
(d) No parliamentary taxes and secret privileges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was daughter, Mary Soams, description of her mother's nature?

2. What sport did Churchill enjoy playing immensely?

3. What disease took the life of Churchill's father?

4. Churchill's life was almost devoid of:

5. Churchill had an unsurpassed skill for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of things tainted the line of the Duke of Marlborough for generations? Who restored it's good name?

2. What happened to Churchill during the Boer War?

3. How did Churchill end up leading the 21st Lancers?

4. Whom were Churchill's children?

5. What did Churchill learn from his Army experience?

6. What happened when Churchill got involved with the Hussars in India fighting against a group of Muslim Pathans?

7. What did John Keegan find when he came to New York to study?

8. Whom did Churchill marry and why?

9. Churchill became president of the Board of Trade where he became familiar with those resisting British rule throughout the world. What groups did he admire and which groups did he despise?

10. How did Churchill's mother spend the time during her marriage to Lord Randolph Churchill?

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