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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 two defects in planning for Longstop does the author point out?
(a) Expected tanks to take steep terrain and attacked with insufficient force.
(b) Used green troops and insufficient artillery.
(c) Underestimated the size of the enemy and misread the terrain.
(d) Placed artillery too distant for accuracy and turned down air support.

2. Who was General Nehring replaced by?
(a) Field Marshal erwin Rommel.
(b) Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
(c) Captain Wilhelm Knoche.
(d) General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim.

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

4. What impasse was surmounted in the deliberations in Casablanca that helped lead to an agreed upon plan to win the war?
(a) The desire of the British contingent to immediately make a cross-channel invasion.
(b) The desire of the American contingent to defeat Japan first.
(c) The desire of the British to defeat Rommel as a first priority.
(d) The desire of the American contingent to comprimise Russia.

5. According to the author, what subtle changes had started to become evident in American troops towards the end of 1942?
(a) Dispair and persistence.
(b) Political accumen and hard resistence.
(c) Fieldcraft and becoming hard-bitten.
(d) Complacence and ingratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did morale improve in II Corps under Patten?

2. What was Fredendall's success in securing Faid Pass, Sened Station and Maknassy?

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

4. Of the 904 men Moore had led on a daring night escape, eventually, how many made it to safety?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was 'Texas?'

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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