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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What criticism does the author make of Speedy Valley during the course of Furlingswind?
(a) That the reluctance to acknowledge the route resulted in too many Allied deaths.
(b) That panic reigned.
(c) That there was no sense of urgency.
(d) That they believed their own misinformation.

2. According to the author, what subtle changes had started to become evident in American troops towards the end of 1942?
(a) Dispair and persistence.
(b) Fieldcraft and becoming hard-bitten.
(c) Complacence and ingratitude.
(d) Political accumen and hard resistence.

3. What hunch of Eisenhower's in regards to General Giraud looks to be accurate?
(a) That Giraud was waiting out the results of TORCH before committing to the Allied cause.
(b) That Giraud was following orders from Petain after all.
(c) That Giraud was an Axis spy.
(d) That he would not settle for less than being appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces.

4. Who said the following: "...infantry, like whiskey, loses potency when diluted."
(a) Ernie Pyle.
(b) Major General Terry Allen.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Ernest Hemmingway.

5. What plan did Colonel Frank Greer suggest that was countermanded by Terry Allen?
(a) A creeping artillery barrage through the town of St. Cloud.
(b) A building by building guerrilla campaign by infantry.
(c) Circle the town and cut if off from it's supply of troops from Oran.
(d) Utilize the hill as a defilade and wait for tank support.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon the capitulation of the French, what 'natural order' was quickly re-established?

2. The death of Admiral Darlan is considered to have had what effect on the Allies?

3. Of the Fifty-two Sherman tanks caught in the German attack Fruhlingswind how many survived?

4. Which high ranking American commander was captured in operation Furlingswind?

5. Who wrote the following after the drubbing in Sbeitla: "There is nothing wrong with the common American soldier. His fighting spirit is good. His morale is okay. The deeper he gets into a fight, the more of a fighting man he becomes."

(see the answer key)

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