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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, many American officers were concerned that the British war plan was:
(a) Too bold by far, under-manned by half.
(b) An attempt to curb French ambitions as well as those of the Germans.
(c) To draw out the war to further London's imperial ambitions.
(d) Too consolidated and misdirected in that it attacked only one Axis.

2. What did Allen determine to do instead of following Colonel Greer's suggestion?
(a) Use air support and cover of night to take out specific enemy installations.
(b) Bifurcate the city with tanks and take the high ground first.
(c) Concentrate his troops and make one desperate last push.
(d) Bypass St. Cloud.

3. What is Ultra?
(a) The name of the U.S. Secret Service in World War II.
(b) The intelligence gathered through British decipherment of coded German radio messages.
(c) A clandestine plan to land a group of American conspirators behind enemy lines in North Africa.
(d) The codename for the bazooka.

4. According to the author, North Africa is where the Axis forever lost:
(a) Their initiative.
(b) Field Marshall Rommel.
(c) Casablanca as an assault base to Washington D.C.
(d) Access to Sicily.

5. 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 following orders from Petain after all.
(c) That he would not settle for less than being appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces.
(d) That Giraud was waiting out the results of TORCH before committing to the Allied cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French character was referred to as "a bad man with a narrow outlook and shifty eye," by Winston Churchill?

2. What went wrong with operation VILLAIN?

3. Inspired by the quality of the food during the Torch voyage, the 13th Armored Regiment suggested changing their battle cry to what?

4. What two particular subjects did Mark Clark know of that would have made him a valuable capture for the Axis Cause?

5. What was Robert Murphy's mission in Algiers?

(see the answer key)

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