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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. Who was Bonnier de la Chapelle?

2. What mistake did Anderson initially repeat at Fondouk gap?

3. What two defects in planning for Longstop does the author point out?

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

5. Of Montgomery's two attacks on Zarat and The Hoarseshoe, what were to results?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the causes of the Anglophobia and tension between the American-British Alliance that grew in the ranks of American and British troops over the course of the North African war.

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