CHAPTER 34 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated a. Francis Joseph. b. Nicholas II. c. Alexander Kerensky. d. Francis Ferdinand. * e. Otto von Bismarck. (p. 946) 2. The first total war in world history was a. the Crimean War. b. the American Civil War. c. World War II. d. the Franco-Prussian War. e. World War I. * (p. 946) 3. Approximately how many combatants died in World War I? a. one million b. three million c. four million d. nine million e. fifteen million * (p. 946) 4. The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was a. Utopian socialism. b. positive nationalism.