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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Operation Hitler ordered at the end of Chapter 2 where Germans would pretend to be U.S. soldiers?

2. At the end of the efforts to take Fort Driant, how many casualties are there?

3. In Chapter 7, what was the date when Operation Watch began?

4. At the end of Chapter 4, how many days did Churchill negotiate with Stalin?

5. At the end of Chapter 11, in what countries were the Soviets fighting the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what did the authors believe that the Germans were thinking before their attack?

2. How did Stalin's second wife die?

3. In the Prologue, how was Patton injured?

4. Who was William Donovan and what did he do for Roosevelt?

5. At the end of Chapter 10 what victories did the Germans have?

6. What was Stalin's plan at the end of Chapter 11?

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

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

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

10. What were the main points of a speech that Patton delivered on June 5, 1944?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Patton prepared to rescue the Americans at Bastogne, he stopped at a Catholic chapel to pray and seek divine intervention. Why did Patton seek divine intervention? Why did Patton view World War II as a religious war? How did that belief affect his decision to ask for divine intervention?

Essay Topic 2

Patton was respected, but he was also hated. What did his nickname “Old Blood and Guts” (1) reveal about how people viewed Patton? Why was he respected and hated?

Essay Topic 3

The subtitle of the book is “The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General." What does it mean to be audacious? In what way was Patton audacious and how did being audacious make him the type of commander that he was?

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