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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rear Admiral Bennett, the RESERVIST plan was:
(a) "Strategically unimportant to winning the war."
(b) "A moral building excercise."
(c) "Suicidal and absolutely unsound."
(d) "Excessive."

2. Who wrote: "Would God I might die with my sword in hand / Ringed by dead foes all around."
(a) Commander Terry Allen.
(b) Brigadier General Ted Roosevelt.
(c) General George Patton.
(d) Ike.

3. What promise did General Patton make to the President of the United States in the presence of Rear Admiral Hewitt?
(a) "I will leave the beaches either a conqueror or a corpse."
(b) "I will ride into battle on horseback."
(c) "The French will capitulate quickly."
(d) "We will make the crossing without the loss of a single boat."

4. What two particular subjects did Mark Clark know of that would have made him a valuable capture for the Axis Cause?
(a) French allies and Italian conspirators.
(b) Details of TORCH and Ultra.
(c) The two airbases used to cover the landing.
(d) The identity of several British spies and details of TORCH.

5. Who did the American contingent meet in Cherchel?
(a) General Mast, the French commander of the Vichy army's XIX Corps.
(b) Benito Mussolini, Commander General of the Italian Africorps.
(c) General Henri Giraud, a senior general capable of uniting the French cause.
(d) The Desert Fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to other offensives, in the taking Safi, the U.S. sustained casualties considered:

2. General Georges Barre was the only Vichy French commander to refuse to kowtow to the Germans. What did he do?

3. How was SATIN a change in strategy for the Allies?

4. Old Ironsides was both the only tank division to see desert battle in WWII, and:

5. The Tine River Valley, where Luftwaffe pilots were attacking about once per hour, was nicknamed what by the troops of the 1st Battalion?

(see the answer key)

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