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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order threatened the success of Rommel's push on Tebessa?
(a) To attack East but only as far as Le Kef.
(b) The order to cancel air support.
(c) Only half the tanks requested were allotted to the task.
(d) Repositioning the force futher to the north.

2. What is Longstop?
(a) The code name of the Allied attempt to take the Medjerda valley.
(b) A flanking technique utilzed by Allied tanks to break a blitzkreig.
(c) A hill in the Medjerda valley offering a strategic vantage point, named after a cricket term.
(d) A key highway moving through a desert pass.

3. Of the Fifty-two Sherman tanks caught in the German attack Fruhlingswind how many survived?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 6.
(d) 0.

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

5. What is Brigadier General Truscott quoted as learning, perhaps in relation to his conflict in Mehdia?
(a) "Nothing undoes a good strategy like French snipers."
(b) "There is no winning, there is only moving on."
(c) "Luck is worth a division."
(d) "No matter how large the force engaged, every battle is made up of small actions by individuals and small units."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the German's rename Longstop?

2. In what state did General Harold Alexander find the Allied command?

3. What rouse did the French employ when repairing the gun turret on the Jean Bart?

4. 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."

5. While Patton was made a national hero in taking Casablanca, which defects were also revealed, according to the author?

(see the answer key)

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