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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to General Patten, it was his expectation of an officer to:
(a) Defer to their British counterparts.
(b) Move ahead.
(c) Lead from the rear and let the troops do the fighting.
(d) Spread chaos through the destruction of civilian property.

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

3. The signal "Advance Napoleon," was issues by Eisenhower which indicated what to the troops readying operation VILLAIN?
(a) To carry out Plan D and expect a hostile reception by the French.
(b) To carry out Plan C and expect to be dropped behind enemy lines.
(c) To carry out Plan B and expect a docile reception by the French.
(d) To carry out Plan B and expect a hostile reception by the French.

4. Rommel was rewarded the Field Marshal's Baton for:
(a) A successful Blitskrieg against massed French loyalists in Paris.
(b) Successfully capturing Stalingrad, Russia.
(c) His success in routing French forces from the Suez Canal.
(d) Capturing 30,000 British Commonwealth troops in Tobruk, Libya.

5. Whose personal credo is: "Always do whatever you can to keep your superior from making a mistake."
(a) Colonel Paul Robinett.
(b) Major General J.S. Nichols.
(c) Lt. General George Patton.
(d) Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

6. What two issues particularly occupied the minds of the American strategists planning Torch?
(a) That minimal British troops accompany the initial landings and where to make the landings.
(b) If the plan had been leaked to the Germans and Vichy France's certain role in fighting the landings.
(c) The training of troops on two different continents and how to merge the forces while at sea.
(d) German U-boats and Japanese dive bombers.

7. Major Rudolph Barlow's surprise attack on an an Axis airfield discovered outside the city of Djedejida resulted in what?
(a) The destruction of the final remnants of the Italian Airforce.
(b) The loss of Company C in a German counter attack.
(c) Capture through an Axis ambush.
(d) The destruction of over twenty German planes.

8. According to Allen, why does a soldier fight?
(a) To prove that his unit is the best in the Army and that he has as much guts as anybody else in the unit.
(b) For his country, his family, and his sense of honor.
(c) Because that's what he's trained to do.
(d) To save suffering humanity.

9. What encounter occurred on November 26th, one day after the successful raid on the airport in Djedeida, between newly outfitted Panzers and John Water's First Battalion, and is considered a 'draw' by the author?
(a) The defining battle for air superiority in Tunisia.
(b) The first strategic ambush by Germans using French troops as bait.
(c) The first tank battle of World War II.
(d) The first of multiple attempts for Americans to take Couigui Pass.

10. What best describes the enemy structure referred to as the 'Kasbah' by Americans?
(a) A tower originally built during the crusades now used by a nest of snipers.
(b) A large barn temporarily used as U.S. Army barracks.
(c) A sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress.
(d) A beach resort used as a French command center.

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

12. 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 is 30 miles from Tunis and straddles the Medjerda River.
(c) Located on a high plateau, it is easily defended.
(d) It has several large airfields and whomever controls the air, controls North Africa.

13. What was considered "the single most decisive act of the Second World War," by historian Marin Gilbert?
(a) Rommel's defense of Kasserine Pass.
(b) The landing of American troops upon the shores of French Morocco.
(c) Based on the quality of American tanks, the Germans introduced the Tiger.
(d) In solidarity with their ally, Hitler and Mussolini declared war on the United States.

14. According to the author, what significant change occurred in the relationship between the Allies over the course of the campaign?
(a) America formed an immediate bond with Britain.
(b) Vichy France betrayed their agreement with Germany by refusing to fight Americans.
(c) Italy sided with the Allies.
(d) Britain slipped into the role of a junior partner to America.

15. According to the author, many American officers were concerned that the British war plan was:
(a) An attempt to curb French ambitions as well as those of the Germans.
(b) To draw out the war to further London's imperial ambitions.
(c) Too consolidated and misdirected in that it attacked only one Axis.
(d) Too bold by far, under-manned by half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on a supposed indifference to civil liberties, unfair suggestions in the newspapers painted Eisenhower as what?

2. What did Eisenhower suspect of General Giraud?

3. 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:

4. TORCH is considered by the author to have been:

5. What two particular subjects did Mark Clark know of that would have made him a valuable capture for the Axis Cause?

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