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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote: "Would God I might die with my sword in hand / Ringed by dead foes all around."
(a) General George Patton.
(b) Brigadier General Ted Roosevelt.
(c) Commander Terry Allen.
(d) Ike.

2. Based on a supposed indifference to civil liberties, unfair suggestions in the newspapers painted Eisenhower as what?
(a) Communist.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Classist.

3. What hunch of Eisenhower's in regards to General Giraud looks to be accurate?
(a) That Giraud was an Axis spy.
(b) That Giraud was waiting out the results of TORCH before committing to the Allied cause.
(c) That Giraud was following orders from Petain after all.
(d) That he would not settle for less than being appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces.

4. In the start of Chapter 7, which traveler was listed as 'Register Number 1.'
(a) General Alexander
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) General Patton.
(d) Winston Churchill.

5. Where did the U.S. deception plans for TORCH suggest possible landing sites for the fleet?
(a) Scandinavia, France or the Middle East.
(b) France, Germany or Denmark.
(c) The Middle East, India or The Istrian Peninsula.
(d) China, Ethiopia or France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political arrangement with the French particularly caused a public outcry in both the U.S. and Britain?

2. Whose personal credo is: "Always do whatever you can to keep your superior from making a mistake."

3. What maps of Morocco were stowed into the holds of the American fleet heading out for TORCH?

4. The Tine River Valley, where Luftwaffe pilots were attacking about once per hour, was nicknamed what by the troops of the 1st Battalion?

5. According to the author, North Africa is where the Axis forever lost:

(see the answer key)

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