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

2. Fredendall's orders to Ward titled "Defense of Faid Position" were based on a poor knowledge of the area and threatened what prospect for the Allied forces?
(a) Allied forces would be stuck in a battle of attrition that could not be won given their size.
(b) Concentrate the forces in the lowest point of the valley where Axis fire could be concentrated.
(c) Forces would be spread in a long line that would offer multiple weak spots that would be difficult to fill.
(d) To be marooned on two hills that were too far away from one another to offer any mutual support.

3. What opportunity had been lost through what was referred to as a poorly executed bad plan to take Fondouk gap?
(a) Capturing Arnim.
(b) Capturing several air fields which would have resulted in Allied air superiority.
(c) Destroying Rommel's forces in a pinching move.
(d) Preventing Messe's troops from reaching Tunis.

4. Who made the following statement: "It is pardonable to be defeated, but unpardonable to be surprised."
(a) Luttrell.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Drake.
(d) Morre.

5. 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 supply depot.
(c) The Pass.
(d) The AFHQ.

Short Answer Questions

1. Combat exhaustion claimed what portion of casualties?

2. Rommel coined the phrase "Krieg ohne Hass" regarding the two years of war in the desert. What does it mean?

3. Who is the German aristocratic colonel captured by allies who later planned a bomb plot against Hitler?

4. Terry Allen tipped the Allied hand regarding Ultra by doing what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Fredendall's defense plan for Faid Pass considered a World War I defense?

2. How did the Axis 'draft' Tunisian Jews for work details around Bizerte and Tunis?

3. As the Allied forces fell into a "stuck-everywhere" period Patton started a row with Allied air for neglecting troops air cover. Due to this complaint, Patton was visited by the two most senior Allied airmen in North Africa. What punctuated this meeting?

4. Characteristic of his history of fighting half measures, what command objective did Fredendall insert in Ward's attack plan on Maknassy pass? And how was it answered by Arnim?

5. In the battle at Mareth, Montgomery made a mid-battle change of plans that his admirers consider one of the boldest decisions of his career. What was the decision?

6. What effect did the War in North Africa have on the American city of Red Oak?

7. Old Mac's counterattack at Faid Pass was probably too small a force, but what other mistake did Old Mac make in putting forth the attack?

8. What was the goal of operation SATIN?

9. What two peculiarities does the author use to characterize Major General Orlando Ward?

10. Rather than focusing on Faid Pass, to what area did Fredendall unsoundly direct the Allied efforts?

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