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Question 1: In contrast, the equally-neutral Switzerland and ________ rounded up German embassy officials and expelled them, on the narrower basis that they no longer represented a functioning state.
DenmarkFinlandSwedenEstonia

Question 2: [12] There were a mere 56 Irish ships when the war started; 15 more were purchased or ________ during the conflict; 20 were lost.
Leasehold estateLeasingPossession (law)Renting

Question 3: Months before the outbreak of war, de Valera gave a statement to the ________ which appeared in newspapers on February 20, 1939:[18]
Associated PressNew JerseyUnited StatesYahoo!

Question 4: [7] IRA chief of staff Seán Russell died in a ________ off the Irish coast as part of Operation Dove; the Germans also later came to realize they had overestimated the abilities of the IRA.
U-boatGerman Type VII submarineGerman Type U 66 submarineGerman Type XXI submarine

Question 5: Irish citizens could serve in the British armed forces, as around 38,554 in the British Army did (see ________), as well as in the merchant navy and in British factories.
Participants in World War IICollaboration with the Axis Powers during World War IIResistance during World War IIAxis powers

Question 6: After the exercises "Rathduff" slipped into obscurity, its fields returning to use as the ________ stud farm they had been before.
Horse breedingThoroughbredHorseArabian horse

Question 7: ________
MV KerlogueThe Emergency (Ireland)Irish Mercantile Marine during World War IIIrish neutrality during World War II

Question 8: Exports, mainly food supplies for ________, were delivered.
Great BritainEnglandScotlandUnited Kingdom

Question 9: The neutrality policy led to a delay in Ireland's membership of the ________.
United NationsUnited Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesIsrael, Palestine, and the United NationsUnited Nations Security Council

Question 10: This threat was real: Russell, upon the outbreak of war, travelled to ________ in order to press for troops and arms to be sent to Ireland.
BerlinStockholmLondonTallinn
















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