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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 1-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. West Point would go on to graduate many notable people, including President Eisenhower, James McNeil Whistler, and __________________.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Reba McIntyre.
(c) Jackson Pollock.
(d) Bob Fosse.

2. Once Wellington took the reins, he had participated in an average of how many battles per year, not counting the years taken off during peacetime or tending to other duties?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. The United States only had _____________ thousand men compared to the two hundred thousand men in Britain's army.
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eight.

4. At best, Grant's troops could evade and stall until help arrived from another Union battalion located _________ miles away, a distance that would take half a day to cover.
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Twenty-three.
(d) Eighteen.

5. Hitler was well known for adopting the axiom of whom?
(a) Clausewitz.
(b) Klein.
(c) Müller.
(d) Schmidt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter seven, "Hitler and the Theatre of Leadership", discusses Hitler's ________________ that he would be able to command loyalty until death from the inner sanctum at the Forbidden City.

2. What technological advancement was important during the American Revolution, the Peninsular War, and at Waterloo? This proves that military progress is inevitable.

3. It is surmised that both Wellington and Napoleon, uniquely adept at grasping higher learning concepts, may have been exposed to a classical learning technique that involved the use of _______________.

4. Keegan outlines Hitler's strategies and includes pertinent information from various sources, including notes from a conference in ___________________.

5. Did Wellington have any sympathy for offenders?

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