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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. General Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff, had strong opinions about Eisenhower. Which statement best represents his opinion?

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

3. What did Ward, Robinette and Dickson try to convince Fredendall, Eisenhower and Anderson of?

4. What criticism does the author make of Speedy Valley during the course of Furlingswind?

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

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

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

4. What was the goal of operation SATIN?

5. 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?

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

7. What was 'Texas?'

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the bureaucratic power of the British, as symbolized in the war room aboard the Bulolo, and the production capabilities of the American's complement one another in this phase of World War II?

Essay Topic 2

How were operations OCHSENKOPF and CAPRI an important turning point in the war? How did the quartermasters help determine this turning point?

Essay Topic 3

How did Fredendall's order to attack Sened Station lead to the successful German attack Fruhlingswind, three weeks later?

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