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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On December 9, 1944, what operation was Patton planning on launching?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Hawkeye.
(c) Tink.
(d) Paperclip.

2. At the end of Chapter 9, how many days of sunshine did Patton pray for?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. In Chapter 6, which group ignored the warning that the Germans might be planning an attack to the north in the Ardennes Forest?
(a) Second Army.
(b) Third Army.
(c) Fourth Army.
(d) First Army.

4. At the end of Chapter 3, where was Hitler sending soldiers, tanks, and artillery?
(a) Holland.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Rhine.
(d) Luxembourg.

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

6. How old was Roosevelt when he contracted polio?
(a) 31.
(b) 22.
(c) 39.
(d) 18.

7. December 24, 1944, how many days did Hitler have to live?
(a) 110 days.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 127 days.
(d) 3 months.

8. How many years did Peiper serve in prison for war crimes?
(a) Almost 12 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) About 10 years.

9. In Chapter 8, when did Patton say that he could attack with three divisions?
(a) December 23.
(b) December 20.
(c) December 22.
(d) December 21.

10. How old was Roosevelt when he married Eleanor?
(a) 23.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 29.

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

12. In Chapter 7, what U.S. Infantry Division were trying to stop the elite 12th SS Panzer Division from capturing Elsenborn Ridge?
(a) 87th.
(b) 99th.
(c) 63rd.
(d) 45th.

13. What was Stalin's first language?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) Russian.
(d) Georgian.

14. How many years did Alexei Kapler spend in a gulag for the crime of loving Joseph Stalin's daughter?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who was the first American to accurately predict the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

2. In Chapter 1, how far behind the front was Patton's headquarters?

3. In Chapter 6, how many Wehrmacht soldiers were located where the U.S. lines were the thinnest?

4. Where was Stalin on Christmas day in 1944?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, how many Germans came under a white flag asking the Americans to surrender at Bastogne?

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