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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the enemy structure referred to as the 'Kasbah' by Americans?
(a) A large barn temporarily used as U.S. Army barracks.
(b) A beach resort used as a French command center.
(c) A tower originally built during the crusades now used by a nest of snipers.
(d) A sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress.

2. According to the author, why was Allen's decision important in a historical context?
(a) It was the first singular tactical decision by an Americn general in the liberation of Europe.
(b) It was the most complicated coordination of tanks and ground troops to that date in modern warfare.
(c) It was the most bloodiest drive of the campaign and could have been the deciding factor in gaining French support.
(d) It was singularly reckless and signaled his key flaw as a commander.

3. What was General Everlegh confident would fall before the end of Christmas Day?
(a) Hill 209.
(b) Snow.
(c) Djebel el Rhar.
(d) Longstop hill.

4. Drake's command "Bust the Balloon," meant what:
(a) Spike the guns.
(b) Attack.
(c) Decamp.
(d) Surrender.

5. Which two passes did the Germans utilize in operation Fruhlingswind?
(a) Maizila Pass and El Fekka Pass.
(b) Faid Pass and Maizila Pass.
(c) Hatab Pass and Maizila Pass.
(d) Faid Pass and Bir el Hafey Pass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Djebel el Rhar?

2. What did Allen determine to do instead of following Colonel Greer's suggestion?

3. What plan did Colonel Frank Greer suggest that was countermanded by Terry Allen?

4. What was it that finally broke the Kasbah's defenses?

5. Who made the following criticism: "The best way to describe our operations to date, is that they have violated every recognized principle of war, are in conflict with all operational and logistic methods laid down in textbooks, and will be condemned, in their entirety, by all Leavenworth and war college classes for the next twenty-five years."

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