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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. Keegan dispels what myth of Hitler's?
(a) He was insane.
(b) He lived in the woods during the war.
(c) His grand lodgings during the war.
(d) He ran away to Belgium during the war.

2. Where did Hitler spend much of his time during the war?
(a) In bleak surroundings and in mosquito-infested forests.
(b) In Belgium.
(c) In large, beautiful lodgings.
(d) In an apartment in Berlin.

3. The Battle of Shiloh was a surprise to the northerners. Why?
(a) They were not very intelligent.
(b) They did not know there was an army nearby.
(c) They did not know the country was in war.
(d) They were exhausted and poorly prepared.

4. Wellington had first witnessed warfare in _________ in Holland.
(a) 1479.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1497.
(d) 1794.

5. Hitler had served as a __________________, a front fighter, in World War I, wherein he was wounded three times.
(a) Frontheimer.
(b) Frankenheimer.
(c) Frankenkampfer.
(d) Frontkampfer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wellington so impressed Castlereagh that the thirty-seven-year-old soldier was soon a trusted confidant and advisor on one military scheme after another. One of those schemes included keeping an eye on whose activities?

2. Hitler erected more than _____________ wartime lodgings.

3. The author quotes Grant as saying, "Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as soon as you can and _________________" (p. 195).

4. Keegan states that if there is any one historical document that details the Civil War in its entirety, that document would be what?

5. When did things change for Grant?

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