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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decision by Rear Admiral Hewitt was considered "a brave decision, the decision of a commander," by Lord Lewis Mountbatten, the commander of British amphibious forces?
(a) To temporarily break the fleet into six parts in order to escape U boats.
(b) To revise the attack and land in force.
(c) To move forward with the invasion as planned, despite conflicting weather reports.
(d) To hold off the invasion until better landings could be found.

2. What was the consequence of the 'unconditional surrender' statement, according to the author?
(a) It provided a moral lode star.
(b) It likely prolonged the war by three years.
(c) International condemnation.
(d) It resulted in stronger resistance from the Axis forces.

3. What went wrong with operation VILLAIN?
(a) Bad fuel caused several plane engines to seize in the air and forced crash landings in Spain.
(b) Bad weather with incorrectly timed and broadcasted beacons.
(c) Only thirty-percent of planes made it past Axis defenses.
(d) German air raids delayed the departure.

4. Who was General Nehring replaced by?
(a) General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim.
(b) Field Marshal erwin Rommel.
(c) Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
(d) Captain Wilhelm Knoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. President Roosevelt mad the following statement in a press conference; "The elimination of German, Japanese, and Italian war power means the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy, and Japan." What was Churchill's response?

2. On January 1, 1942, twenty-six countries signed an agreement to forswear any separate peace without mutual concurrence and to make a common cause of "life, liberty independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve the rights of man and justice." This group of nations called themselves:

3. The Allied success in Djedeida in November 1942 lead to what effect?

4. What was operation SYMBOL?

5. Combat exhaustion claimed what portion of casualties?

(see the answer key)

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