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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. According to Eisenhower, Fredendall was offered a 'soft landing' for what reason?
2. Patton's II Corps had reached 88,473 men, the author notes that this is exactly the same size as what other American force?
3. Eisenhower promoted Clark to take command of the new 5th Army, who filled the vacancy to command II Corps?
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. 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?
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. How did the Axis 'draft' Tunisian Jews for work details around Bizerte and Tunis?
4. What controversial proclamation was made by Roosevelt that Churchill later, and probably falsely, claimed had caught him short?
5. Rather than focusing on Faid Pass, to what area did Fredendall unsoundly direct the Allied efforts?
6. 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?
7. What was the goal of operation SATIN?
8. How was Longstop positioned so that it represented a strategic point?
9. What prescient claim of General 'Santa Clause' Everlegh's would turn out to be true, but not in the way he had hoped?
10. What character trait made Robinett a difficult officer to command?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 1, the clandestine mission of Mark Clark is described. What was his purpose in this mission and how could have his capture impacted the Allies war effort?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In the prologue to the book, the author addresses the issue of Anglophilia between the British and the Americans. In what way was this shared prior to the bombing on Pearl Harbor? And in what way did the two world leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt, maintain it on a personal level? Finally, what was the trickle down effect on the war's generals?
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