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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the naval battle of Casablanca, Hewitt faced El Hank. What was El Hank?
(a) An uniquely large and rapidly firing gun turret mounted on the Jean Bart, a french battleship.
(b) A coastal battery.
(c) The single German U boat deending the harbor on loan to the French.
(d) A captured then renamed American battleship.

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

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

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

5. Who was Bonnier de la Chapelle?
(a) An innocent bystandard.
(b) A communist sympathiser from Algiers
(c) An antifascist French monarchist.
(d) A fascist assasin from Spain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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. What criticism does the author make of Speedy Valley during the course of Furlingswind?

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