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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Grand Strategy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hitler's military achievements match up against those of Napoleon's?
(a) He matched Napoleon's achievements.
(b) Hitler's accomplishments were very different from Napoleon's.
(c) He far exceeded Napoleon's accomplishments.
(d) He did not come close to matching Napoleon.

2. What is the most essential factor in concentrating forces?
(a) Hiding the concentration from the enemy.
(b) Providing ample supplies.
(c) Keeping communications open.
(d) Maintaining the chain of command.

3. Which of the following major factors that was developed in warfare in the period between 1854 and 1914 made it harder to employ the indirect approach?
(a) The railway.
(b) The machine gun.
(c) Observation balloons.
(d) Concentration of forces.

4. In what way was Turkey exceptionally vulnerable?
(a) It has no air defenses at all and was vulnerable to bombing.
(b) It was vulnerable to amphibious assaults.
(c) It could not sustain any attacks on its supplies or resources.
(d) Along its southern border.

5. Overall, what was the state of Hitler's grand strategy?
(a) He had no idea of the importance of grand strategy.
(b) He constantly fumbled the political side of grand strategy.
(c) He had well planned and positioned grand strategy.
(d) He could not handle the responsibility of grand strategy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Constable du Geusclin always avoided attacking which of the following?

2. In general, what was the state of mobility during World War II?

3. Decisive results are almost always the result of what kind of strategy?

4. What tactic, employed by generals as early as Belisarius, was widely used in World War II?

5. Which of the following did Clausewitz see himself as?

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