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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Darlan revoke his order announcing to all French troops that further battle was futile?
(a) Marshal Petain sacked Darlan as his military commander and repudiated the agreement.
(b) The position of the British above him in the command structure threatened French authority.
(c) French troops threatened revolt.
(d) The arrival of General Giraud threatened his new position.

2. Rommel was rewarded the Field Marshal's Baton for:
(a) Successfully capturing Stalingrad, Russia.
(b) A successful Blitskrieg against massed French loyalists in Paris.
(c) His success in routing French forces from the Suez Canal.
(d) Capturing 30,000 British Commonwealth troops in Tobruk, Libya.

3. Although the Allies were aware of the numbers of Axis troops pouring into Tunis, they misjudged the situation in what way?
(a) By assuming supply issues would hamper the German's ability to fight.
(b) By assuming these troops were ment to reinforce the Middle East.
(c) By assuming the terrain was in Allied favor.
(d) By assuming these troops were of low category and without motor transport.

4. Old Ironsides was both the only tank division to see desert battle in WWII, and:
(a) The only tank division manned by volunteers.
(b) The only tank division to receive no desert training.
(c) The only tank division trained in amphibious assault.
(d) The only tank division equipped with radios.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was operation WATCHTOWER?

3. Hitler reinforced Tunis because of what realization, according to the author?

4. Against the wishes of his generals, the president of the United States canceled which plan in preference for a North African invasion?

5. What was the biggest deficiency, according to the author, in Allied planning?

(see the answer key)

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