View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to troops in Tunisia during the winter of 42-43, how did Stuka time and Spitfire time compare?
(a) Spitfire time only interrupted tea.
(b) Stuka was sunrise to noon, Spitfire was noon to dusk.
(c) Stuka time comprised most daylight hours while Spitfire time consisted of about a half hour.
(d) Stuka time was every hour, Spitfire time once a week.

3. Of Montgomery's two attacks on Zarat and The Hoarseshoe, what were to results?
(a) Both attacks were successful and caused a German retreat.
(b) Only the Hoarshshow was a success.
(c) Both were routed by the Axis.
(d) Only Zarat was a success.

4. In the start of Chapter 7, which traveler was listed as 'Register Number 1.'
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) General Alexander
(c) General Patton.
(d) President Roosevelt.

5. Which high ranking American commander was captured in operation Furlingswind?
(a) Kenneth Anderson.
(b) John Waters.
(c) Ted Roosevelt.
(d) Terry Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was operation SYMBOL?

2. How was SATIN a change in strategy for the Allies?

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

4. According to the author, how had Eisenhower been "outflanked" by the British in the Casablanca conference?

5. How long was the battle of Gafsa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

6. What character trait made Robinett a difficult officer to command?

7. What prescient claim of General 'Santa Clause' Everlegh's would turn out to be true, but not in the way he had hoped?

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

9. 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?

10. Describe the ancient city Eisenhower visited while the attack in Sidi Bou Zid was taking place?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 916 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample