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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 did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?
(a) Withheld any air cover.
(b) Withheld half of the 10th Panzer division's tanks.
(c) Withheld the 7th Artillery division.
(d) Required him attack on a more circuitous route.

2. Who was Bonnier de la Chapelle?
(a) An antifascist French monarchist.
(b) An innocent bystandard.
(c) A communist sympathiser from Algiers
(d) A fascist assasin from Spain.

3. The War department realized that, for combat effectiveness, divisions should not be left in the line longer than how many days?
(a) Forty to Fifty.
(b) Fifty to Sixty.
(c) Thrity to Forty.
(d) Twenty to Thirty.

4. What plan did the British press on their American counterparts during the conference?
(a) To redistribute troops for an attack on southern France and fight defensively in North Africa.
(b) To press for an immediate attack on Sicily and postpone the push on Tunis.
(c) The plan to postpone a frontal assault across the English Channel in favor of an attack on Italy or Southern France.
(d) To feed troops the the Russian front and start diplomatic talks with Italy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was operation SYMBOL?

3. What did the German's rename Longstop?

4. What major engineering feat was undertaken in Speedy Valley, although it's strategic importance was questionable?

5. Who was General Nehring replaced by?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How was Longstop positioned so that it represented a strategic point?

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

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

6. What was the first administrative struggle Patton faced when taking over II Corps?

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

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

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

10. What was 'Texas?'

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