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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. Which ranking official had a bad relationship with Hitler?

2. What other target was being attacked at the same time as Stalingrad?

3. Who stopped Operation Citadel altogether?

4. What about the Soviets at Crimea was superior to the Germans at first?

5. What was Dnepropetrovsk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What complaint did Manstein have about the troops that were covering him at Stalingrad?

2. What did Paulus refuse to do at the behest of others?

3. What did General Hoth accomplish at Rostov?

4. What strange situation did Hitler cause by not trusting his Chiefs of Staff?

5. Who was Antonescu mad at, and why?

6. What was Operation Citadel?

7. What did Hitler keep trying to freeze during the movement in the Rostov region, and how did it work?

8. What made Manstein re-double his efforts to take Sevastopol after Fort Stallin fell?

9. What was debated in the summer of 1943?

10. What did Manstein say was Hitler's mistake in choosing targets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the main differences that Manstein observed as he took the journey west, and how did these changes affect the war?

Essay Topic 2

Which person from this book did you relate with the most? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

What role did Operation Citadel play in the narrative and what did it symbolize? How was the narrative altered by this plan?

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