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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan did Colonel Frank Greer suggest that was countermanded by Terry Allen?
(a) A building by building guerrilla campaign by infantry.
(b) Utilize the hill as a defilade and wait for tank support.
(c) A creeping artillery barrage through the town of St. Cloud.
(d) Circle the town and cut if off from it's supply of troops from Oran.

2. What was Robert Murphy's mission in Algiers?
(a) To sabotage the Axis airfield.
(b) To escort Allied agents into the city to plant bombs.
(c) To launch an insurrection of the Vichy French.
(d) To spike the guns in the shore batteries.

3. What was it that finally broke the Kasbah's defenses?
(a) Eight Navy dive bombers.
(b) Fifty troops led by Truscott stormed the gates.
(c) Accurate fire from the beached destroyer, Dallas.
(d) Well placed Howitzers.

4. What was Leedstown?
(a) The U.S.S. Leedstown was the first victim of the Luftwaffe in the North African campaign.
(b) The Allied name for the supply depot built in Algiers.
(c) The English city from which the bulk of the Royal Airforce departed for Africa.
(d) An upgraded English tank thought to be more conducive to desert warfare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Darlan revoke his order announcing to all French troops that further battle was futile?

2. What went wrong with operation VILLAIN?

3. Who wrote: "Would God I might die with my sword in hand / Ringed by dead foes all around."

4. According to the author, the end of the cavalry era came not with a bang, but with:

5. What events occurred to the disappointment of Hitler around 1941?

(see the answer key)

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