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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what makes Medjez-el-Bab a strategically important location?
(a) Through it is the sole land route to Tunis.
(b) It has several large airfields and whomever controls the air, controls North Africa.
(c) It is 30 miles from Tunis and straddles the Medjerda River.
(d) Located on a high plateau, it is easily defended.

2. What was Leedstown?
(a) An upgraded English tank thought to be more conducive to desert warfare.
(b) The Allied name for the supply depot built in Algiers.
(c) The U.S.S. Leedstown was the first victim of the Luftwaffe in the North African campaign.
(d) The English city from which the bulk of the Royal Airforce departed for Africa.

3. What was operation RESERVIST?
(a) A bombing attack from Gibraltar bases on Axis ports in North Africa.
(b) A clandestine mission launched by Patton.
(c) A British plan to forestall the sabotage of Oran's port.
(d) An Allied plan that spread forces across north Tunisia.

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

5. What is Ultra?
(a) The codename for the bazooka.
(b) A clandestine plan to land a group of American conspirators behind enemy lines in North Africa.
(c) The intelligence gathered through British decipherment of coded German radio messages.
(d) The name of the U.S. Secret Service in World War II.

6. Does the author consider RESERVIST a success?
(a) Yes, despite heavy casualties.
(b) No, with the exception that not a single Allied ship was lost.
(c) Yes, especially in that no ships in the harbor were scuttled or damaged by the battle.
(d) No, although it was claimed as such.

7. North Africa is where the Allies agreed on a policy of:
(a) Blitzkrieg.
(b) Unconditional surrender.
(c) Military autonomy.
(d) Detente.

8. Why were the Vichy French fighting the Allies in North Africa?
(a) If they did not, Germany would invade Vichy France and seize the large Vichy fleet anchored at Toulon.
(b) Germany held several French nobles prisoner and threatened to assasinate them.
(c) Loss of North Africa to the Allies would mean the loss of the final French colonies and several war ships.
(d) Vichy France was held captive by Italy.

9. What was General Giraud's stated expectation upon reaching Gibraltar?
(a) To assume command of all Allied forces.
(b) To be shipped directly to North Africa where he would inspire the Vichy French forces to join the Allied cause.
(c) To assume the responsibility of preparing a beach assault in Normandy.
(d) To be awarded the rank of Deputy Commander-in-Chief.

10. Why did Darlan revoke his order announcing to all French troops that further battle was futile?
(a) The position of the British above him in the command structure threatened French authority.
(b) French troops threatened revolt.
(c) Marshal Petain sacked Darlan as his military commander and repudiated the agreement.
(d) The arrival of General Giraud threatened his new position.

11. What promise did General Patton make to the President of the United States in the presence of Rear Admiral Hewitt?
(a) "I will leave the beaches either a conqueror or a corpse."
(b) "We will make the crossing without the loss of a single boat."
(c) "The French will capitulate quickly."
(d) "I will ride into battle on horseback."

12. Who traveled to Gibraltar under the nom de guerre of "General Howe."
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Ted Roosevelt.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) George Patton.

13. What nickname for Eisenhower did the War Department try to suppress?
(a) Howie.
(b) Doc.
(c) C-N-C.
(d) Ike.

14. According to Rear Admiral Bennett, the RESERVIST plan was:
(a) "Excessive."
(b) "A moral building excercise."
(c) "Strategically unimportant to winning the war."
(d) "Suicidal and absolutely unsound."

15. America declared war on Germany upon:
(a) The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(b) When German troops unfurled an enormous Swastika flag from the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.
(c) The advance of German troops into Poland.
(d) When the Italian government declared war on France and Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Allen determine to do instead of following Colonel Greer's suggestion?

2. According to General Patten, it was his expectation of an officer to:

3. In the naval battle of Casablanca, Hewitt faced El Hank. What was El Hank?

4. According to the author, General Patton had condensed his extensive study of history and military art down to one manifesto. What was it?

5. Against the wishes of his generals, the president of the United States canceled which plan in preference for a North African invasion?

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