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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event did the President of the United States hope the invasion of North Africa would precede?
(a) The six month mark from the date of declaring war against Japan.
(b) The Fourth of July.
(c) Congressional Elections.
(d) The Christmas holiday.

2. The Allied success in Djedeida in November 1942 lead to what effect?
(a) Axis abandonment of Medjez-el-Bab and a general contraction of the Axis front line.
(b) The splitting of German forces into a north and south contingent.
(c) The addition of a sorely needed Allied port in Djedeida.
(d) The destruction of more than half the German tanks corp.

3. What events occurred to the disappointment of Hitler around 1941?
(a) Mussolini's fondness of French culture and Japan's need for war ships.
(b) Stalin's break from his treaty with Germany and the resulting shortage in fuel reserves.
(c) Spain's refusal to join the Axis and Italy's invasion of Greece.
(d) The fall of Yugoslavia and Britain's invasion across the English Channel.

4. The Tine River Valley, where Luftwaffe pilots were attacking about once per hour, was nicknamed what by the troops of the 1st Battalion?
(a) Uncle Adolf's.
(b) The Mess.
(c) The Firing Range.
(d) Happy Valley.

5. What did the H.M.S. Bulolo deliver to Casablanca to assist the British in their cause?
(a) 400 cases of champagne.
(b) A special forces troop to demostrate new machinery and tactics to make a cross channel landing.
(c) A war room filled with planning studies bound in red leather dispatch folders.
(d) A group of captured German informers with specific details on Axis plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did General Erich von Wulisch tell General Nogues in his farewell call before escaping Fedala?

2. The code name OCHSENKOPF stands for what?

3. What written warning from superiors did Commander Terry Allen burn?

4. What did Ward, Robinette and Dickson try to convince Fredendall, Eisenhower and Anderson of?

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

(see the answer key)

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