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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rank did Guderian achieve in 1938?
(a) Field Marshal.
(b) Lieutenant General.
(c) Major General.
(d) General.

2. What type of vehicle was the Tiger?
(a) A tank-destroyer.
(b) An armored personnel carrier.
(c) A heavy tank.
(d) A light tank.

3. After the occupation of the Sudetenland, tension with which major nation grew?
(a) The United States.
(b) The United Kingdom.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

4. What major life change did Guderian make before WWI?
(a) He became a German citizen.
(b) He enlisted in the army.
(c) He renounced his faith.
(d) He married.

5. Why was Guderian unable to press his attack into Dunkirk?
(a) Hitler ordered a halt of ground advances in this area.
(b) The French were well fortified in this area.
(c) There was a lack of fuel and supplies.
(d) The English had landed.

6. How were the Germans met in the Sudetenland?
(a) As occupying foreigners.
(b) With token hostile resistance.
(c) With flowers.
(d) With suspicion.

7. Where did Guderian see and drive his first tank?
(a) Austria.
(b) Sweden.
(c) England.
(d) Denmark.

8. Why did Guderian accept the new post offered to him after the occupation of the Sudetenland?
(a) Honor and pride demanded he accept.
(b) The position gave him access to more resources.
(c) The position opened more options for promotion.
(d) Hitler insisted he accept.

9. How many Panzer divisions were formed by 1935?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Twelve.

10. Guderian became an instructor on what subjects?
(a) Supply and logistics.
(b) Land doctrine and air support.
(c) Military history and mobile warfare.
(d) Command, intelligence, and control.

11. Hitler's arrival in what Austrian city affected him deeply?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Salzburg.
(c) Graz.
(d) Linz.

12. How many French troops surrendeedr to German forces after their defeat at Belfort?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

13. When planning the crossing of the Dnieper river, what did Guderian believe to be the only way to prevent the Russians from establishing a new defensive line?
(a) Air superiority.
(b) Bombardment.
(c) Fast advances.
(d) Direct tank assaults.

14. What was the code name for the German invasion of Russia?
(a) Downfall.
(b) Barbarossa.
(c) Overlord.
(d) Sea lion.

15. During the fighting around Smolensk, Von Kluge threatened to court-martial Guderian and what other German leader?
(a) Hoth.
(b) Kleist.
(c) Keigel.
(d) Rommel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the first waves of the 10th Panzer Division cross the Meuse River?

2. What caused problems in the repair and maintenance of tanks in 1943?

3. When was the attack against Poland initiated?

4. Germany's first experimental medium tanks had guns with what diameter of bore?

5. What resource in Czechoslovakia proved to be somewhat useful for Germany?

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