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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fredendall's orders to Ward titled "Defense of Faid Position" were based on a poor knowledge of the area and threatened what prospect for the Allied forces?
(a) Concentrate the forces in the lowest point of the valley where Axis fire could be concentrated.
(b) Forces would be spread in a long line that would offer multiple weak spots that would be difficult to fill.
(c) To be marooned on two hills that were too far away from one another to offer any mutual support.
(d) Allied forces would be stuck in a battle of attrition that could not be won given their size.

2. Who was Bonnier de la Chapelle?
(a) A fascist assasin from Spain.
(b) An antifascist French monarchist.
(c) An innocent bystandard.
(d) A communist sympathiser from Algiers

3. How many platoons had Eisenhower commanded in battle prior to the start of World War II?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) None.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the 904 men Moore had led on a daring night escape, eventually, how many made it to safety?

2. What strategic assessment did Arnim and Rommel agree on?

3. What opportunity had been lost through what was referred to as a poorly executed bad plan to take Fondouk gap?

4. Of the Fifty-two Sherman tanks caught in the German attack Fruhlingswind how many survived?

5. Drake's command "Bust the Balloon," meant what:

(see the answer key)

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