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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French character was referred to as "a bad man with a narrow outlook and shifty eye," by Winston Churchill?
(a) General Mast.
(b) Admiral Darlan.
(c) General Giraurd.
(d) Robert Murphy.

2. What written warning from superiors did Commander Terry Allen burn?
(a) That aircover would not be provided.
(b) That the French would show resolve in repelling the attack.
(c) That the British planned to outflank him.
(d) That the French should not be considered hostile.

3. In contrast to other offensives, in the taking Safi, the U.S. sustained casualties considered:
(a) Moderate.
(b) Minimal.
(c) Excessive.
(d) Overwhelming.

4. 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) The fall of Yugoslavia and Britain's invasion across the English Channel.
(c) Stalin's break from his treaty with Germany and the resulting shortage in fuel reserves.
(d) Spain's refusal to join the Axis and Italy's invasion of Greece.

5. Who wrote: "Would God I might die with my sword in hand / Ringed by dead foes all around."
(a) Commander Terry Allen.
(b) General George Patton.
(c) Brigadier General Ted Roosevelt.
(d) Ike.

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

7. Upon being made Mussolini's deputy, what plan did Kesselring devise?
(a) A consolidation of forces aimed at breaking the Allied forces up.
(b) To build a bridgehead around Tunis and plan a counter attack.
(c) An immediate assault on Oran.
(d) To give up North Africa as slowly as possible to buy time for the Axis campaign in Russia.

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

9. What decision by Rear Admiral Hewitt was considered "a brave decision, the decision of a commander," by Lord Lewis Mountbatten, the commander of British amphibious forces?
(a) To move forward with the invasion as planned, despite conflicting weather reports.
(b) To temporarily break the fleet into six parts in order to escape U boats.
(c) To hold off the invasion until better landings could be found.
(d) To revise the attack and land in force.

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

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

12. 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 first of multiple attempts for Americans to take Couigui Pass.
(b) The first tank battle of World War II.
(c) The defining battle for air superiority in Tunisia.
(d) The first strategic ambush by Germans using French troops as bait.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of memorial fills the American military cemetery at Carthage to mark the graves of American troops?

2. General Georges Barre was the only Vichy French commander to refuse to kowtow to the Germans. What did he do?

3. What plan did Colonel Frank Greer suggest that was countermanded by Terry Allen?

4. Why did Darlan revoke his order announcing to all French troops that further battle was futile?

5. 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:

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