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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 the date of the holiday that Stalin created to replace Christmas?

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

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

4. When did Omar Bradley graduate from West Point?

5. In Chapter 10, where were Joachim Peiper and his men trapped?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8 when Patton was asked what he could contribute to stop the Germans in the north, what did he have prepared?

2. At the end of Chapter 2, what was Operation Greif?

3. What happened to Field Marshall Rommel in Chapter 2?

4. At the end of Chapter 8, what happened in Bastogne?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 3, why was Eisenhower troubled?

6. How did Stalin's second wife die?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 5, how is Roosevelt described?

8. In Chapter 5, why did the authors say that Roosevelt was not a man of the people?

9. At the end of Chapter 3, what was Hitler doing to strike back at the Allies?

10. In The Prologue how is Beatrice, Patton's wife described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Roosevelt died, there were different reactions to the news. What were the various reactions to the news of his death? What do those reactions reveal about the people who were affected by his death?

Essay Topic 2

Truman and Patton were complete opposites. Why did Truman dislike Patton? How did the differences between the men foster the dislike that Truman felt for Patton? Were Truman’s feelings based upon a relationship with Patton or bias? How did the differences between the two men influence that way that Truman felt about Patton?

Essay Topic 3

The Germans were very inhumane to the Jews and others. What groups of people suffered at the hands of the Germans? How was the treatment they received inhumane? How did the way that the Germans viewed the Jews and others as less than human contribute to the way they treated the Jews and other people groups?

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