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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. Between what two agencies was cooperation arranged?

2. Why was flying to England monthly dangerous for Stevenson?

3. What did ships from the United States to Lisbon receive when they stopped in Bermuda?

4. What was Stevenson's cover occupation?

5. What was Roosevelt's coded name in his correspondence with Churchill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the problem with the sea lanes and what is done?

2. Why did Ambassador Kennedy remain in London until Hitler began bombing the city?

3. What did Churchill appoint Stevenson to and out of where does he operate?

4. How did Donovan become more involved with Stevenson's work?

5. How was intelligence work in England and the United States developing during the time just before the outbreak of WWII?

6. What began on July 10,1940, and how does Britain respond?

7. What did Stevenson write about concerning Germany and how does he have access to the German communication network?

8. What did Stevenson learn from his network in Sweden?

9. How did William Stevenson get into the field of communications?

10. Where did the King and Queen of England go and what did the King make clear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The field of codes and ciphers played an important role in the war strategy of both the Allies and the Axis powers. Discuss the following:

1. Define and compare a code and a cipher.

2. Trace and analyze the theme of codes and ciphers throughout the book. Were they in use before WWII? When? How? How were codes and ciphers generated during WWII? How secure were codes and ciphers? Who had an edge on the other powers when it came to the use of codes and ciphers?

3. The Americans came up with a unique means of communicating securely by the use of "Navajo Code Talkers." Research and explain what that was about.

Essay Topic 2

Without Adolf Hitler's rise to power, WWII may never have occurred--at least on the European front; therefore, an understanding of the state of Germany at that time is essential to understanding many of the references in the book. Discuss the following:

1. Research and write an informative essay on the state of Germany during the 2 decades prior to the outbreak of WWII. What is the economy like? What are the major political parties? What do they stand for? What is the make-up of the German society as far as religious, racial and class?

Essay Topic 3

Plans for the assassination of Heydrich began in August 1941, even through they didn't carry out the plot until after Pearl Harbor. As Heydrich lay in a hospital dying, the Germans began a series of retributions by killing one hundred Czechs every evening. More killings followed as houses were searched. The people were killed in the village where the assassins had landed. The village of Lidice was burned to the ground. Discuss the following:

1. Is the act of assassination honorable? Justifiable? Should governments such as the United States condone and assist in assassinations? What about the idea of a fair trial? Does an assassination take that idea into account? Should it?

2. Do you think the BSC and OSS would have carried out the assassination of Heydrich had they known of the probable consequences? Why or why not? Was the assassination of one man worth the death of hundreds more?

3. Thoroughly discuss Henrich Heydrich and his role in the Nazi war machine and atrocities carried out by the Nazis.

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