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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the naval battle of Casablanca, Hewitt faced El Hank. What was El Hank?
(a) A captured then renamed American battleship.
(b) The single German U boat deending the harbor on loan to the French.
(c) An uniquely large and rapidly firing gun turret mounted on the Jean Bart, a french battleship.
(d) A coastal battery.

2. According to the author, what subtle changes had started to become evident in American troops towards the end of 1942?
(a) Dispair and persistence.
(b) Fieldcraft and becoming hard-bitten.
(c) Complacence and ingratitude.
(d) Political accumen and hard resistence.

3. What was the Service d'Ordre Legionnaire, whom Terry Allen came up against in the battle for St. Cloud?
(a) French secret service agents who infiltrated the Vichy French ranks.
(b) French fascists who modeled themselves on the German SS.
(c) An expert French artillery division.
(d) A battalian of Belgian troops fighting on the side of the Allies.

4. What was the first town to be captured by the Allies?
(a) Arzew.
(b) Casablanca.
(c) Oran.
(d) Tangiers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to other offensives, in the taking Safi, the U.S. sustained casualties considered:

2. General Georges Barre was the only Vichy French commander to refuse to kowtow to the Germans. What did he do?

3. What "huge, chairborn force" of more than 1,000 officers and 15,000 enlisted troops occupied 2,000 pieces of real estate in Algiers?

4. What was Leedstown?

5. According to the author, about how much of his time did Eisenhower spend worrying about political issues at the expense of the Allied cause?

(see the answer key)

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