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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Describe this person who wrote this axiom?
(a) He was a member of the Nazi Party.
(b) He was a German professor.
(c) He was a military historian and author of the 1812 essay titled, "Principles of War".
(d) He was a German military leader during WWI.

3. Keegan states that if there is any one historical document that details the Civil War in its entirety, that document would be what?
(a) The Personal Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln.
(b) The Letters of U.S. Grant.
(c) The Letters of Abraham Lincoln.
(d) The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

4. Was staying hidden terrible to Hitler?
(a) No, because he was ascinated by the machine that was the Catholic Church.
(b) Yes, because he wanted to be seen by his people.
(c) Yes, because he missed the attention from the crowds.
(d) No, because he no longer wanted to be out in public.

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

6. Also included in the chapter are maps of which of Grant's conquests?
(a) At Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
(b) At Shiloh and Gettysburg.
(c) At Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
(d) At Shiloh and Vicksburg.

7. WWII would become what for Hitler?
(a) Revenge for the death of his mother.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) His re-creation of WWI, only with Germany arising victorious.
(d) An exciting adventure.

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

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

10. What political was Grant a part of?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Green Party.
(d) The Republican Party.

11. The year was 1862, and Grant was serving as the Commander of the District of __________________.
(a) Western Tennessee.
(b) Eastern Indiana.
(c) Northern West Virginia.
(d) Southern Kentucky.

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

13. 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.
(a) Lack of belief.
(b) Strong belief.
(c) Belief.
(d) Limited belief.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Was the Blitzkrieg of Hitler's invention?

2. Keegan details Hitler's early years in the __________________ regiment, where he would receive his military training.

3. West Point would go on to graduate many notable people, including President Eisenhower, James McNeil Whistler, and __________________.

4. Hitler was by all accounts ______________ class man who was frustrated, unfulfilled and resentful with his life and its circumstances.

5. Was the plan to destroy Poland before the English and French could intervene due to Hitler?

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