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

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

3. What did Ward, Robinette and Dickson try to convince Fredendall, Eisenhower and Anderson of?
(a) That the Allies were arranged in a dangerous position that allowed flanking by the Axis.
(b) That the Germans would attack, in concentration, in the North.
(c) That the German attack would not strike at the North.
(d) That the Germans would not attack until Spring.

4. 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 George Washington's force at Valley Forge.
(b) Sherman's army in Carolina at the end of the Civil War.
(c) The combined forces of the troops who fought at Gettysburg.
(d) General Lee's force in the Mexican-American War.

5. In the April fight for El Guettar, Patton lost which personal friend?
(a) Captain Richard Jenson, his favorite aide.
(b) General Terry Allen, his favored commander.
(c) Major General Bradley.
(d) Lt. Colonel John Waters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plan did the British press on their American counterparts during the conference?

2. What strategic assessment did Arnim and Rommel agree on?

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

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

5. What was Fruhlingswind?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the goal of operation SATIN?

4. What controversial proclamation was made by Roosevelt that Churchill later, and probably falsely, claimed had caught him short?

5. The success of Fruhlingswind had what effect what brother plan?

6. What new artillery techniques did the American gunners utilize in routing the 10th Panzers from El Guettar?

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

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

10. 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?

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