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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Ultra?
(a) The name of the U.S. Secret Service in World War II.
(b) A clandestine plan to land a group of American conspirators behind enemy lines in North Africa.
(c) The intelligence gathered through British decipherment of coded German radio messages.
(d) The codename for the bazooka.
2. Why did Darlan revoke his order announcing to all French troops that further battle was futile?
(a) The position of the British above him in the command structure threatened French authority.
(b) The arrival of General Giraud threatened his new position.
(c) French troops threatened revolt.
(d) Marshal Petain sacked Darlan as his military commander and repudiated the agreement.
3. When German anti-aircraft gunners in Tunis fired at his plane by mistake, Field marshal Albert Kesselring's response was to:
(a) Install better sights on the guns.
(b) Order larger swastika's painted on all Axis aircraft.
(c) Re-station them to Antarctica.
(d) Rubuke them for missing an easy target.
4. According to the author, what makes Medjez-el-Bab a strategically important location?
(a) It is 30 miles from Tunis and straddles the Medjerda River.
(b) It has several large airfields and whomever controls the air, controls North Africa.
(c) Located on a high plateau, it is easily defended.
(d) Through it is the sole land route to Tunis.
5. According to the author, what was operation VILLAIN?
(a) The delivery of an armored division by C-47 airplanes to the front lines.
(b) The first American airborne operation of the war, and among the most daring before or since.
(c) The landing of a combined force of British and American special forces troops near Casablanca.
(d) A massive bombing run against Axis airfields in North Africa immediately following TORCH.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why were the Vichy French fighting the Allies in North Africa?
2. Against the wishes of his generals, the president of the United States canceled which plan in preference for a North African invasion?
3. According to Rear Admiral Bennett, the RESERVIST plan was:
4. What was Leedstown?
5. What was the biggest deficiency, according to the author, in Allied planning?
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