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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the U.S. deception plans for TORCH suggest possible landing sites for the fleet?
(a) The Middle East, India or The Istrian Peninsula.
(b) Scandinavia, France or the Middle East.
(c) China, Ethiopia or France.
(d) France, Germany or Denmark.

2. Hitler reinforced Tunis because of what realization, according to the author?
(a) That the American claim to plan a landing on the shores of Normandy was a rouse.
(b) That North Africa could be used as a platform for the invasion of southern Europe.
(c) That the Vichy French alliance had collapsed.
(d) That Italy would not be able to adequately face the size of the Allied force there.

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

4. What event on November 27 in Toulon represents "one of the greatest acts of self-immolation in military history," according to the author.
(a) The scuttling of the Vichy French fleet.
(b) Rather than losing another airfield to Allied forces, Germans destroyed 40 of their own planes and fuel reserves.
(c) Vichy French high command destroyed their own defensive installations as a sign of faith to the Fascist cause.
(d) The destruction of all American Stuart tanks at the front to be replaced by General Lee's.

5. What "huge, chairborn force" of more than 1,000 officers and 15,000 enlisted troops occupied 2,000 pieces of real estate in Algiers?
(a) OPEC
(b) The Luftewaffe
(c) AFHQ
(d) The United Nations

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. What became the unofficial motto of Allied forces in Tunisia?

4. Who did the American contingent meet in Cherchel?

5. What maps of Morocco were stowed into the holds of the American fleet heading out for TORCH?

(see the answer key)

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