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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The American route by Arnim was successful to the point of making Rommel's attack Morgenluft negligible. What strategic objective in Tebessa did Rommel have his eye on?
(a) The AFHQ.
(b) The Allied air fields.
(c) The Pass.
(d) The supply depot.

2. In what state did General Harold Alexander find the Allied command?
(a) Organized and poised for the offensive.
(b) Despondent and lacking resolve.
(c) In full retreat.
(d) Disorganized without a policy or a plan.

3. What did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?
(a) Required him attack on a more circuitous route.
(b) Withheld half of the 10th Panzer division's tanks.
(c) Withheld any air cover.
(d) Withheld the 7th Artillery division.

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

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."
(a) Pyle.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two passes did the Germans utilize in operation Fruhlingswind?

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

3. Of the 904 men Moore had led on a daring night escape, eventually, how many made it to safety?

4. What is Longstop?

5. Upon taking Oran what did the Allies immediately set to converting it to?

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