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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the American contingent meet in Cherchel?
(a) Benito Mussolini, Commander General of the Italian Africorps.
(b) General Henri Giraud, a senior general capable of uniting the French cause.
(c) The Desert Fox.
(d) General Mast, the French commander of the Vichy army's XIX Corps.

2. What two particular subjects did Mark Clark know of that would have made him a valuable capture for the Axis Cause?
(a) Details of TORCH and Ultra.
(b) The two airbases used to cover the landing.
(c) The identity of several British spies and details of TORCH.
(d) French allies and Italian conspirators.

3. According to the author, the end of the cavalry era came not with a bang, but with:
(a) A dinner bell.
(b) A successful routing of an Italian regiment.
(c) The grinding of tank gears.
(d) A quiet retreat from a botched midnight excursion across Axis lines.

4. What was operation WATCHTOWER?
(a) The name of the original U.S. plan to attack Germany through France.
(b) A pre-emptive strike by the Royal Air Force against North African Axis bases.
(c) The first Allied counter-offensive against Japan at Guadalcanal.
(d) A covert mission to convince Vichy France to join the Allied cause.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise did General Patton make to the President of the United States in the presence of Rear Admiral Hewitt?

2. A British Tommy is quoted as saying:

3. According to the author, many American officers were concerned that the British war plan was:

4. What was considered "the single most decisive act of the Second World War," by historian Marin Gilbert?

5. Where did the U.S. deception plans for TORCH suggest possible landing sites for the fleet?

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