View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By this time, assassination attempts had been made on Hitler's life, a fact that increased security _____________________ by staying hidden away.
(a) And would increase Hitler's effectiveness.
(b) But would also increase people's faith.
(c) But would also limit Hitler's effectiveness.
(d) And would also create anger in the German people.

2. How close did Germany come to victory in WWI?
(a) Not very close.
(b) Not close at all.
(c) Somewhat close.
(d) Very close.

3. Hitler was by all accounts ______________ class man who was frustrated, unfulfilled and resentful with his life and its circumstances.
(a) An upper.
(b) An upper middle.
(c) A lower.
(d) A lower middle.

4. Keegan outlines Hitler's strategies and includes pertinent information from various sources, including notes from a conference in ___________________.
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Rastenburg.
(d) Munich.

5. Chapter six, "Hitler in Command", may be the ____________ chapter in the text.
(a) Most boring.
(b) Most important.
(c) Least important.
(d) Most unusual.

6. The only surviving letter of Hitler's from World War I recounts an attack involving the 16th Bavarian Reserve in an attack at Ypres in what year?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1913.

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

8. Included in Chapter Five are several photos and renderings of Grant, including a portrait and whose surrender at Vicksburg?
(a) Davis'.
(b) Pemberton's.
(c) Lee's.
(d) Jackson's.

9. Chapter seven, "Grant the Fighter", recalls what?
(a) Grant's quiet approach to battle.
(b) Grant's unchanging approach to battle.
(c) Grant's strong approach to battle.
(d) Grant's unique approach to battle.

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

11. In three years, Grant would be _______________ in Chief of the Armies of the United States; within seven years, Grant would be inaugurated as the eighteenth president.
(a) Colonel.
(b) Commander.
(c) Major.
(d) General.

12. 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).
(a) Keep moving on.
(b) Strike again.
(c) Go home.
(d) Take a break.

13. Hitler taunted who's ignorance of the Clausewitz work?
(a) The Americans'.
(b) His generals'.
(c) The British's.
(d) His soldiers'.

14. 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 _________________.
(a) Give of himself.
(b) Give of the German man.
(c) Ask of others.
(d) Ask of his family.

15. While Grant may have been surrounded by more than his share of ordinary men, there were at least two that stood out to the commander. They were Lieutenant Colonel Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant General, and ________________, Aide de Camp.
(a) Captain Brooke.
(b) Captain Boon.
(c) Captain Boners.
(d) Captain Bonneville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Grant did not approve of the tactics used regarding the Rio Grande venture?

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

3. In a nutshell, Hitler saw war as what?

4. Additionally, the men who were enlisted were mainly stationed on and around the __________________ River to protect trade and settlement routes.

5. How does Grant believe the Civil War was best fought?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 619 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample