SSC English – Test 12

Read the passage carefully and choose best answer to each question out of four alternatives.</br> The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were harsh and not for negotiation. Germany lost 13 per cent of her territory, which meant 12 per cent of Germans now lived in a foreign country, and Germany's colonial possessions were redistributed among the other colonial powers. The German Rhineland, on the border with France, was to be demilitarized and placed under Allied control until 1935. The small but industrially important Saar region was to be governed by Britain and France for fifteen years and its coal exported to France in recompense for the French coal mines destroyed by Germany during the war. After fifteen years a plebiscite of the Saar population would decide its future. Most of West Prussia was given to Poland. The German city of Danzig (modern-day Gdansk) was made a 'free' city so that Poland could have use of a port. To give Poland access to Danzig, they were given a strip of land, the 'Polish Corridor', through Prussia, thereby cutting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany.</br> Militarily, Germany's army was to be limited to a token 100,000 men, and its navy to 15,000 plus a ban on conscription. She was not permitted to have an air force, nor tanks, and was prohibited from producing or importing weaponry. The payment of reparations was for 'compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied powers and their property'. It was to include raw material, such as the coal from the Saar and Ruhr regions. Two years later, in 1921, the cost of reparations was announced £6.6 billion, which German economists calculated would take until 1988 to pay. The figure shocked and angered Germans who conveniently forgot that Germany had demanded an even greater sum from a defeated France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.</br>

Which TITLE is appropriate for this passage?

Read the passage carefully and choose best answer to each question out of four alternatives.</br> The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were harsh and not for negotiation. Germany lost 13 per cent of her territory, which meant 12 per cent of Germans now lived in a foreign country, and Germany's colonial possessions were redistributed among the other colonial powers. The German Rhineland, on the border with France, was to be demilitarized and placed under Allied control until 1935. The small but industrially important Saar region was to be governed by Britain and France for fifteen years and its coal exported to France in recompense for the French coal mines destroyed by Germany during the war. After fifteen years a plebiscite of the Saar population would decide its future. Most of West Prussia was given to Poland. The German city of Danzig (modern-day Gdansk) was made a 'free' city so that Poland could have use of a port. To give Poland access to Danzig, they were given a strip of land, the 'Polish Corridor', through Prussia, thereby cutting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany.</br> Militarily, Germany's army was to be limited to a token 100,000 men, and its navy to 15,000 plus a ban on conscription. She was not permitted to have an air force, nor tanks, and was prohibited from producing or importing weaponry. The payment of reparations was for 'compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied powers and their property'. It was to include raw material, such as the coal from the Saar and Ruhr regions. Two years later, in 1921, the cost of reparations was announced £6.6 billion, which German economists calculated would take until 1988 to pay. The figure shocked and angered Germans who conveniently forgot that Germany had demanded an even greater sum from a defeated France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.</br>

What were the restrictions imposed on the Germany?

Read the passage carefully and choose best answer to each question out of four alternatives.</br> The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were harsh and not for negotiation. Germany lost 13 per cent of her territory, which meant 12 per cent of Germans now lived in a foreign country, and Germany's colonial possessions were redistributed among the other colonial powers. The German Rhineland, on the border with France, was to be demilitarized and placed under Allied control until 1935. The small but industrially important Saar region was to be governed by Britain and France for fifteen years and its coal exported to France in recompense for the French coal mines destroyed by Germany during the war. After fifteen years a plebiscite of the Saar population would decide its future. Most of West Prussia was given to Poland. The German city of Danzig (modern-day Gdansk) was made a 'free' city so that Poland could have use of a port. To give Poland access to Danzig, they were given a strip of land, the 'Polish Corridor', through Prussia, thereby cutting East Prussia off from the rest of Germany.</br> Militarily, Germany's army was to be limited to a token 100,000 men, and its navy to 15,000 plus a ban on conscription. She was not permitted to have an air force, nor tanks, and was prohibited from producing or importing weaponry. The payment of reparations was for 'compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied powers and their property'. It was to include raw material, such as the coal from the Saar and Ruhr regions. Two years later, in 1921, the cost of reparations was announced £6.6 billion, which German economists calculated would take until 1988 to pay. The figure shocked and angered Germans who conveniently forgot that Germany had demanded an even greater sum from a defeated France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.</br>

Which area was demilitarized by the allied forces?