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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eisenhower promoted Clark to take command of the new 5th Army, who filled the vacancy to command II Corps?
(a) Major General Omar N. Bradley.
(b) General Harold Alexander.
(c) Major General Lloyd Fredendall.
(d) General George S. Patton.

2. What was Djebel el Rhar?
(a) A deep defile with no possibility of crossing it.
(b) A slightly lower crest to Djebel el Ahmera.
(c) A fortified tower manned by Italian troops.
(d) A desert river bed and useful hiding spot.

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

4. What percentage of Panzers taking part of OCHSENKOPF were either destroyed or disabled?
(a) 90%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 50%.

5. Combat exhaustion claimed what portion of casualties?
(a) One in seven.
(b) One in twenty.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One in fourteen.

6. 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) Anderson.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Eisenhower.

7. What was stated as the reason for the decision to defer the advance on Tunis?
(a) Bad weather.
(b) American supply issues.
(c) French political issues.
(d) A German re-supply.

8. What was Fredendall's success in securing Faid Pass, Sened Station and Maknassy?
(a) In securing Faid Pass but neither Sened Station or Maknassy.
(b) In securing no objectives.
(c) In securing Maknassy and Sened Station both, but losing Faid Pass
(d) In securing all objectives.

9. According to the author, how had Eisenhower been "outflanked" by the British in the Casablanca conference?
(a) His command structure was changed to put three British deputies, with independent authority, below him to oversee air, land and sea operations.
(b) He was forced to relocate his operations office back to Gibralter where the British felt they could have better oversight.
(c) A special envoy was forced upon him to assist with political matters.
(d) The position of a British general to oversee British and French troops was created, to be filled at a later date.

10. Of the Fifty-two Sherman tanks caught in the German attack Fruhlingswind how many survived?
(a) 6.
(b) 0.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

11. What was Fruhlingswind?
(a) A plan to air drop 400 German and Italian troops behind enemy lines to take Speedy Valley.
(b) A counter attack by German artillery on Sidi bou Zid.
(c) An attack by a concentration of Stutka's on Faid Pass.
(d) An attack by over 200 German tanks on Sidi bou Zid.

12. The American route by Arnim was successful to the point of making Rommel's attack Morgenluft negligible. What strategic objective in Tebessa did Rommel have his eye on?
(a) The Allied air fields.
(b) The Pass.
(c) The supply depot.
(d) The AFHQ.

13. What plan did the British press on their American counterparts during the conference?
(a) To redistribute troops for an attack on southern France and fight defensively in North Africa.
(b) To press for an immediate attack on Sicily and postpone the push on Tunis.
(c) To feed troops the the Russian front and start diplomatic talks with Italy.
(d) The plan to postpone a frontal assault across the English Channel in favor of an attack on Italy or Southern France.

14. Who replaced Ward's command?
(a) Paul Robinett
(b) Ernie Pyle.
(c) Omar Bradley.
(d) Ernie Harmon.

15. According to the author, what mistake did Ward make after taking Sened station and Maknassy.
(a) Launched an attack on the Highway 14 gap to the urging of a French liaison officer.
(b) Spread his forces across the valley instead of consolidating his forces in Maknassy.
(c) He held in Maknassy instead of moving on the Highway 14 gap.
(d) He defied orders by continuing to move down the highway into a German ambush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ward, Robinette and Dickson try to convince Fredendall, Eisenhower and Anderson of?

2. Of Montgomery's two attacks on Zarat and The Hoarseshoe, what were to results?

3. What criticism does the author make of Speedy Valley during the course of Furlingswind?

4. Which high ranking American commander was captured in operation Furlingswind?

5. According to Bradley, what did the American military achieve in the battle of El Guettar in Mid-March 1943?

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