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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. Who is the German aristocratic colonel captured by allies who later planned a bomb plot against Hitler?
(a) Herman Goring.
(b) Hans-Jurgen von Arnim.
(c) Claus von Stauffenberg.
(d) Joseph S. Frelinghuysen.

2. What was the consequence of the 'unconditional surrender' statement, according to the author?
(a) It likely prolonged the war by three years.
(b) It provided a moral lode star.
(c) International condemnation.
(d) It resulted in stronger resistance from the Axis forces.

3. Who did Montgomery have a picture of above his desk?
(a) Rommel.
(b) Churchill.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Queen Victoria.

4. In what state did General Harold Alexander find the Allied command?
(a) Despondent and lacking resolve.
(b) In full retreat.
(c) Organized and poised for the offensive.
(d) Disorganized without a policy or a plan.

5. 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) Eisenhower.
(b) Pyle.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Churchill.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Ward disagree with the decision to take Sened station?

3. By January 24th 1943, heavy French casualties and prisoner-of-war-losses prompted what important change of heart in the French command?

4. What did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?

5. What was Fruhlingswind?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Six, the assassination of Admiral Darlan is explained. Describe the Assassin's political cause.

2. General Sir Alan Brooke, is characterized as one of the great generals of the war. But what tragedy in 1925 changed his charmed life and what permanent effects did it have?

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

4. What decision did General Omar Bradley help Eisenhower to make by giving him a frank opinion on 'the command here?'

5. General Harold Alexander is introduced in Chapter 9, what was his position and what was his mission?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. Why did Terry Allen order Bill Darby's rangers on a secret mission to attack the defile held by enemy artillery recently routed from Gafsa?

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