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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, General Patton had condensed his extensive study of history and military art down to one manifesto. What was it?
(a) "Establish a unified front and push until their back is against the wall."
(b) "Survival in battle is for the lucky; it's a soldier's duty to die."
(c) "Divide and conquer."
(d) "Violent attacks everywhere with everything."

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

3. What rouse did the French employ when repairing the gun turret on the Jean Bart?
(a) They allowed the ship to sink several feet.
(b) They camouflaged the gun turret with wreckage from other ships.
(c) They pumped smoke from the top of the turret suggesting fire on board.
(d) They left the guns cockeyed.

4. Of the 904 men Moore had led on a daring night escape, eventually, how many made it to safety?
(a) Approximately 200.
(b) Approximately 750.
(c) Approximately 150.
(d) Approximately 430.

5. What was Fredendall's success in securing Faid Pass, Sened Station and Maknassy?
(a) In securing Maknassy and Sened Station both, but losing Faid Pass
(b) In securing Faid Pass but neither Sened Station or Maknassy.
(c) In securing no objectives.
(d) In securing all objectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many platoons had Eisenhower commanded in battle prior to the start of World War II?

2. 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?

3. Which high ranking American commander was captured in operation Furlingswind?

4. The radio messages "batter up" and "play ball" meant what to the American fleet?

5. The initial American strategy for attacking Hitler was summed up by a British general as:

(see the answer key)

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