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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event did the President of the United States hope the invasion of North Africa would precede?
(a) The Christmas holiday.
(b) Congressional Elections.
(c) The six month mark from the date of declaring war against Japan.
(d) The Fourth of July.

2. Ultra was able to intercept a German message that informed them the 21st Panzer Division had been ordered forward and that Sunday was to a-day for an operation by Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army. What vital piece of information was missing that would have better prepared the Allies?
(a) The location of the attack.
(b) That an unprecidented show of air superiority was also planned.
(c) That this attack had also been canceled.
(d) That the attack force was in fact much larger.

3. The signal "Advance Napoleon," was issues by Eisenhower which indicated what to the troops readying operation VILLAIN?
(a) To carry out Plan B and expect a docile reception by the French.
(b) To carry out Plan C and expect to be dropped behind enemy lines.
(c) To carry out Plan D and expect a hostile reception by the French.
(d) To carry out Plan B and expect a hostile reception by the French.

4. 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:
(a) The International Democratic Union.
(b) The United Nations.
(c) NAFTA.
(d) The Allies.

5. Who wrote the following after the drubbing in Sbeitla: "There is nothing wrong with the common American soldier. His fighting spirit is good. His morale is okay. The deeper he gets into a fight, the more of a fighting man he becomes."
(a) Ernie Pyle.
(b) Charles Perry.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Paul Robinett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Longstop?

2. 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."

3. What "huge, chairborn force" of more than 1,000 officers and 15,000 enlisted troops occupied 2,000 pieces of real estate in Algiers?

4. According to troops in Tunisia during the winter of 42-43, how did Stuka time and Spitfire time compare?

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

(see the answer key)

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