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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 creeping artillery barrage through the town of St. Cloud.
(b) Utilize the hill as a defilade and wait for tank support.
(c) Circle the town and cut if off from it's supply of troops from Oran.
(d) A building by building guerrilla campaign by infantry.

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

3. The radio messages "batter up" and "play ball" meant what to the American fleet?
(a) Troops are landed and on the offensive.
(b) Acknowledged French resistance and authorized retaliatory fire.
(c) Casablanca has been taken and forces are now to move East.
(d) Air superiority was achieved and the landing could be made.

4. Hitler reinforced Tunis because of what realization, according to the author?
(a) That North Africa could be used as a platform for the invasion of southern Europe.
(b) That the Vichy French alliance had collapsed.
(c) That Italy would not be able to adequately face the size of the Allied force there.
(d) That the American claim to plan a landing on the shores of Normandy was a rouse.

5. What kind of memorial fills the American military cemetery at Carthage to mark the graves of American troops?
(a) Simple marble markers.
(b) Catacombs.
(c) Several granite obelisks.
(d) One large marble tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Major Rudolph Barlow's surprise attack on an an Axis airfield discovered outside the city of Djedejida resulted in what?

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

3. Upon the capitulation of the French, what 'natural order' was quickly re-established?

4. What was Robert Murphy's mission in Algiers?

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

(see the answer key)

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