1. Grant would be inaugurated as the __________________ president.
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

2. Wellington chose to make plans and do what?
(a) Ignore the plans.
(b) Whatever he could to avoid fighting a great battle.
(c) Change the plans frequently.
(d) Attack quickly without thinking.

3. Grant, like many other commanders, was elected to head a recruiting committee for ___________.
(a) Springfield.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Galena.
(d) Gary.

4. Wellington was eventually named the Commander-in-Chief of the British and ____________ forces, which sent him to Flanders.
(a) Dutch-Belgian.
(b) Dutch-German.
(c) Dutch-Swedish.
(d) Dutch-Norwegian.

5. Should a leader today be unheroic?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Often.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hitler's final words echoed the same things he had said at the onset of WWII in 1939, that he would ask no more of the German man than he would _________________.

2. How was Alexander toward his men?

3. Keegan details the progression of war and what is referred to as ______________________, noting the size of the armies of various countries.

4. The inner core of the army was __________________, comprised of about three thousand men, two thousand of which rode into Asia.

5. Was the Blitzkrieg of Hitler's invention?

(see the answer key)

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