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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 subtle changes had started to become evident in American troops towards the end of 1942?
(a) Dispair and persistence.
(b) Complacence and ingratitude.
(c) Fieldcraft and becoming hard-bitten.
(d) Political accumen and hard resistence.

2. What command did Patton order of Ward in the taking of the Maknassy Heights?
(a) To hit it with everything he had and not to return alive if it isn't taken.
(b) To lead the attack personally and not return until he had taken it.
(c) To retreat to Macknassy and await his replacement.
(d) To fight to the last man, including himself.

3. Which two passes did the Germans utilize in operation Fruhlingswind?
(a) Maizila Pass and El Fekka Pass.
(b) Faid Pass and Maizila Pass.
(c) Hatab Pass and Maizila Pass.
(d) Faid Pass and Bir el Hafey Pass.

4. Who was General Nehring replaced by?
(a) Field Marshal erwin Rommel.
(b) Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
(c) Captain Wilhelm Knoche.
(d) General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim.

5. What was General Everlegh confident would fall before the end of Christmas Day?
(a) Hill 209.
(b) Longstop hill.
(c) Djebel el Rhar.
(d) Snow.

6. What strategic mistake did Fredendall make in regards to Faid Pass?
(a) Used half measures to counter attack there in order to focus on less strategically important battles.
(b) Ignored Anderson's order to 'make things right' there, even though it was a pass of little consequence.
(c) Issued orders of extreme complexity that confused the front.
(d) Delayed for two days which allowed German troops to dig in.

7. What did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?
(a) Withheld the 7th Artillery division.
(b) Withheld half of the 10th Panzer division's tanks.
(c) Withheld any air cover.
(d) Required him attack on a more circuitous route.

8. Patton's II Corps had reached 88,473 men, the author notes that this is exactly the same size as what other American force?
(a) General Lee's force in the Mexican-American War.
(b) General George Washington's force at Valley Forge.
(c) The combined forces of the troops who fought at Gettysburg.
(d) Sherman's army in Carolina at the end of the Civil War.

9. The code name OCHSENKOPF stands for what?
(a) Ox Head.
(b) Eight Fronts.
(c) Ram Horn.
(d) Tiger Trap.

10. What is Longstop?
(a) A hill in the Medjerda valley offering a strategic vantage point, named after a cricket term.
(b) A key highway moving through a desert pass.
(c) The code name of the Allied attempt to take the Medjerda valley.
(d) A flanking technique utilzed by Allied tanks to break a blitzkreig.

11. 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) 400 cases of champagne.
(c) A special forces troop to demostrate new machinery and tactics to make a cross channel landing.
(d) A group of captured German informers with specific details on Axis plans.

12. According to Bradley, what did the American military achieve in the battle of El Guettar in Mid-March 1943?
(a) That this win would result in the Hun soon learning to dislike this outfit.
(b) The first solid, indisputable defeat we inflicted on the Germany army in the war.
(c) The resolve that this was the last defeat we would stomach in the War for Africa.
(d) The seminal victory that shifted dominance in tank divisions from Germany to America.

13. What two defects in planning for Longstop does the author point out?
(a) Underestimated the size of the enemy and misread the terrain.
(b) Expected tanks to take steep terrain and attacked with insufficient force.
(c) Used green troops and insufficient artillery.
(d) Placed artillery too distant for accuracy and turned down air support.

14. What order threatened the success of Rommel's push on Tebessa?
(a) The order to cancel air support.
(b) Repositioning the force futher to the north.
(c) To attack East but only as far as Le Kef.
(d) Only half the tanks requested were allotted to the task.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the following statement: "It is pardonable to be defeated, but unpardonable to be surprised."

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

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

4. Ultra was able to intercept a German message that informed them the 21st Panzer Division had been ordered forward and that Sunday was to a-day for an operation by Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army. What vital piece of information was missing that would have better prepared the Allies?

5. Eisenhower promoted Clark to take command of the new 5th Army, who filled the vacancy to command II Corps?

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