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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, during the last three years, how much time had Hitler spent at the Wolf Lair?
(a) Some 800 days.
(b) 740 days.
(c) 1,012 days.
(d) About 900 days.

2. At the end of Chapter 5, what was the operation that Hitler was planning?
(a) Watch.
(b) Seagull.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Magpie.

3. In Chapter 6, who was the first American to accurately predict the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Col. Oscar Koch.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) General Patton.
(d) Roosevelt.

4. At the end of Chapter 7, how many American soldiers are murdered by Hitler's elite bodyguards?
(a) 275.
(b) 180.
(c) 350.
(d) 315.

5. In Chapter 4, what allied leader attended a ballet in Moscow?
(a) General Patton.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) General Montgomery.
(d) Eisenhower.

6. What language did Roosevelt speak fluently?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) German.
(d) Russian.

7. In Chapter 9, when did Patton promise McAuliffe that he would be in Bastogne?
(a) December 26.
(b) December 24.
(c) December 27.
(d) December 25.

8. In Chapter 4, who was the ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya's lover?
(a) Khrushchev.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Malenkov.

9. What is the name of the Operation Hitler ordered at the end of Chapter 2 where Germans would pretend to be U.S. soldiers?
(a) Kreml.
(b) Delphin.
(c) Greif.
(d) Barbarossa.

10. When did Omar Bradley graduate from West Point?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1913.

11. In Chapter 9, how far was Patton and the Third Army from Bastogne?
(a) 43 miles.
(b) 28 miles.
(c) 33 miles.
(d) 19 miles.

12. In Chapter 7, what time was the order given to begin firing for Operation Watch?
(a) 6:30 a.m.
(b) 7:00 a.m.
(c) 5:30 a.m.
(d) 6:00 a.m.

13. At the end of Chapter 4, how many days did Churchill negotiate with Stalin?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

14. At the end of Chapter 8, how many Germans came under a white flag asking the Americans to surrender at Bastogne?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

15. During the first attack on Driant, how many soldiers were killed or wounded?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, how far was Hitler from the place where Patton prayed?

2. In Chapter 12, how many Sherman tanks had Lt. Col. Creighton Abrams had shot out from under him?

3. How old was Roosevelt when he married Eleanor?

4. In Chapter 12 in Bastogne what type of building had been turned into a make-shift field hospital?

5. In Chapter 9, how many tanks were traveling toward Bastogne?

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