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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. At the end of Chapter 3, where was Hitler sending soldiers, tanks, and artillery?
(a) Luxembourg.
(b) Holland.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Rhine.

2. In Chapter 6, who was the first American to accurately predict the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Col. Oscar Koch.
(d) General Patton.

3. How many years did Alexei Kapler spend in a gulag for the crime of loving Joseph Stalin's daughter?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 17.

4. What was the date at the beginning of the Prologue?
(a) December 11, 1945.
(b) January 21, 1946.
(c) December 21, 1945.
(d) January 3, 1946.

5. At the end of Chapter 5, what was the operation that Hitler was planning?
(a) Seagull.
(b) Watch.
(c) Magpie.
(d) Lobster.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Central Intelligence Agency born?

2. In Chapter 3, when had General George Marshall dictated would be the last day of the war?

3. In Chapter 2, during the last three years, how much time had Hitler spent at the Wolf Lair?

4. What language did Roosevelt speak fluently?

5. In October of 1944, where were Eisenhower's headquarters?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8 when Patton was asked what he could contribute to stop the Germans in the north, what did he have prepared?

2. At the end of Chapter 2, what was Operation Greif?

3. In Chapter 12, what did Patton do on Christmas Day?

4. In the Prologue, how was Patton injured?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, what happened in Bastogne?

6. In Chapter 9, how would Patton travel to encourage his troops?

7. At the end of Chapter 3, what was Hitler doing to strike back at the Allies?

8. In Chapter 6, what plans did Patton make in case the Germans were planning an offensive in the Ardennes Forest?

9. In Chapter 5, why did the authors say that Roosevelt was not a man of the people?

10. In Chapter 9, why did Patton go to a Catholic chapel on December 23, 1944?

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