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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Grant believe the Civil War was best fought?
(a) When it was to exacerbate the political differences between the north and the south.
(b) When it was to free the slaves.
(c) When it was to quell the growing political conflict throughout the country.
(d) When it was to balance out the economic differences between the north and the south.

2. The author says, "Few today think of Hitler as a soldier. But it was as a soldier, quite as much as a politician or ____________ - the strangest of his delusions - that he thought of himself" (p. 235).
(a) A musician.
(b) An actor.
(c) An artist.
(d) A dancer.

3. On what did Clausewitz focus?
(a) The reparations that must take place after a battle.
(b) The battlefield.
(c) The end of the battle.
(d) Occupation of the capital.

4. 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) 1913.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1915.

5. Was the plan to destroy Poland before the English and French could intervene due to Hitler?
(a) Yes, mostly.
(b) No, not at all.
(c) Yes, completely.
(d) No, not completely.

6. What did Lincoln proclaim about Grant?
(a) The need for his fortitude.
(b) The need for this will.
(c) The need for his skills.
(d) The need for his intelligence.

7. The regiment in which Hitler served was filled with the type of people Hitler longed to be with but what?
(a) Whose circle he had not once been admitted into.
(b) Did not understand him.
(c) Were afraid of him.
(d) Were too busy to include him.

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

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

10. Keegan details Hitler's early years in the __________________ regiment, where he would receive his military training.
(a) Munich.
(b) Germanic.
(c) Bavarian.
(d) German.

11. Did Hitler understood the axiom?
(a) Almost.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Mostly.

12. Hitler erected more than _____________ wartime lodgings.
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighteen.

13. Although Hitler would serve ______________ years as high commander, it was not the man's first foray into the military arena.
(a) Four and a half.
(b) Five and a half.
(c) Six and a half.
(d) Three and a half.

14. Additionally, the men who were enlisted were mainly stationed on and around the __________________ River to protect trade and settlement routes.
(a) Rio Grande.
(b) Hudson.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Ohio.

15. Chapter six, " Grant on Campaign", discusses what?
(a) Grant's relationships with the men.
(b) Grant's men.
(c) Grant's personal habits while on campaign.
(d) Grant's military strategies.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Battle of Shiloh was a surprise to the northerners. Why?

2. Where did Hitler spend much of his time during the war?

3. Keegan points out that there are some factors overlooked or glossed over by many _____________________ regarding Hitler's early war experiences.

4. Keegan goes into detail about Grant's habits and methods as what?

5. The United States only had _____________ thousand men compared to the two hundred thousand men in Britain's army.

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