WWI (World War I)

WWI (World War I)

By Isaura Espinoza

Multiple Choice

1. What were the names of the two sides fighting in World War I?

• the Central Powers and the United Powers

• Europe and Russia

• the Allies and the Central Powers

• Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire

Multiple Choice

2. The author lists countries in this passage in order to

• prove that the war was fought all over the world.

• inform the reader who fought on which side.

• explain why each country joined the war.

• show how many countries were destroyed.

Multiple Choice

3. Why does the author most likely say “it doesn’t matter what we call the war?”

• It is the only world war in history, so we know which war we are talking about.

• What we call the war does not change how important and devastating it was.

• We can come up with nicknames for it, but Europeans call the war something else.

• The war goes by too many names so we should just say what years the war was.

Multiple Choice

4. Read the following sentence: “The opposing armies lined up face to face and fought each other all along the Western Front and the Eastern Front.”

The word opposing means

• in conflict with each other

• evil or villainous

• unprepared, not ready

• very similar to each other

Multiple Choice

5. This passage is mostly about

• why the United States entered the war.

• how the war was different from previous wars.

• how the war was fought and why it ended.

• who was involved and when the war happened.

Open Ended

6. When did the U.S. enter World War I and what countries were on the same side as the U.S.?

Multiple Choice

8. The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.

__________ the war in Europe had started in 1914, the U.S. didn’t enter World War I until 1917.

• Then

• So

• Although

• Because