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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. What was Djebel el Rhar?

2. Did morale improve in II Corps under Patten?

3. What order threatened the success of Rommel's push on Tebessa?

4. What example does the author give of McQuillin's suggested use of outdated military technology?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the goal of operation SATIN?

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

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

5. Old Mac's counterattack at Faid Pass was probably too small a force, but what other mistake did Old Mac make in putting forth the attack?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Allied mistakes that led to Fruhlingswind's success. Also discuss how this was an unanticipated success for the Axis.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, the planning for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa is described. A major piece of the planning was deciding on the location of the landings. Describe the perils of landing too far to the West, versus the perils of landing too far to the East. Contrast this plan with operation Sledgehammer, which the American's first suggested.

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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