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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medal did Rear Admiral Hewitt win in World War I?
(a) A Medal of Honor.
(b) The rank of Admiral.
(c) The Navy Cross for Heroism.
(d) The Purple Heart.

2. What became the unofficial motto of Allied forces in Tunisia?
(a) "To the last of our rations."
(b) "It flies, it dies."
(c) "Dig or Die."
(d) "Kilroy was here."

3. According to Eisenhower, Fredendall was offered a 'soft landing' for what reason?
(a) To keep him in the back pocket.
(b) To avoid shaking public confidence in the high command.
(c) To improve troop morale.
(d) To help mask the degree of their loses.

4. Who wrote the following after the drubbing in Sbeitla: "There is nothing wrong with the common American soldier. His fighting spirit is good. His morale is okay. The deeper he gets into a fight, the more of a fighting man he becomes."
(a) Ernie Pyle.
(b) Paul Robinett.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Charles Perry.

5. Who made the following criticism: "The best way to describe our operations to date, is that they have violated every recognized principle of war, are in conflict with all operational and logistic methods laid down in textbooks, and will be condemned, in their entirety, by all Leavenworth and war college classes for the next twenty-five years."
(a) Pyle.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. On January 1, 1942, twenty-six countries signed an agreement to forswear any separate peace without mutual concurrence and to make a common cause of "life, liberty independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve the rights of man and justice." This group of nations called themselves:

2. America declared war on Germany upon:

3. Inspired by the quality of the food during the Torch voyage, the 13th Armored Regiment suggested changing their battle cry to what?

4. What French character was referred to as "a bad man with a narrow outlook and shifty eye," by Winston Churchill?

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

(see the answer key)

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