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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What became the unofficial motto of Allied forces in Tunisia?
(a) "Kilroy was here."
(b) "Dig or Die."
(c) "It flies, it dies."
(d) "To the last of our rations."

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

4. According to the author, North Africa is where the Axis forever lost:
(a) Access to Sicily.
(b) Field Marshall Rommel.
(c) Casablanca as an assault base to Washington D.C.
(d) Their initiative.

5. Upon taking Oran what did the Allies immediately set to converting it to?
(a) The largest airbase in North Africa.
(b) A vast supply depot.
(c) The Allies' primary naval station.
(d) A boot camp where British and American troops would be trained together.

Short Answer Questions

1. The shortages of necessities at the outset of Anderson's push East, inspired this quote: "The most important thing is never to be apart from your:

2. What did Eisenhower suspect of General Giraud?

3. Does the author consider RESERVIST a success?

4. The General Lee is described by the author as: "double the Stuart's weight, with a 75mm gun in the hull, a 35mm squirrel rifle in the turret, and four machine guns." What did the author describe as it's flaws?

5. According to the author, why was Allen's decision important in a historical context?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the coincidental presence of Admiral Darlan negatively effect the mission of Robert Murphy?

2. Describe 'the Boy Captain' Robert R. Moore.

3. How did America support the Allied cause before formally joining the war?

4. What particular naval skill in Hewitt know for?

5. What was the motto of the Big Red One?

6. Admiral Darlan did capitulate and surrender Algiers, but what order was he reluctant to make?

7. Even after the attack on Pearl Harbor, why did Roosevelt believe 'Germany First' was the proper strategy?

8. Although Eisenhower professed "a violent hatred of the Axis and all that is stands for," the author doubts this. What does both Eisenhower and the American troops generally lack through much of the North Africa War?

9. In the first tank battle of World War II between Germans and Americans, the commander, John Waters, used Captain Siglin's twelve tank force in what manner?

10. What was the reasoning behind the American request that almost no British troops take part in the initial TORCH landings?

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