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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 free the slaves.
(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 balance out the economic differences between the north and the south.

2. When did things change for Grant?
(a) When Virginia left the Union.
(b) When the Union attacked the Rebels at Fort Sumter.
(c) When Texas seceded.
(d) After the initial attack on Fort Sumter.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. When ______________, Grant's colleague and friend, approached with the same thoughts of surrender, Grant's demeanor immediately showed his determination.
(a) Sherman.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Lee.
(d) Lincoln.

8. Who failed to back up Poland, thereby sealing the country's fate?
(a) Russia.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) England.

9. Keegan details the progression of war and what is referred to as ______________________, noting the size of the armies of various countries.
(a) The military population development.
(b) The military population growth.
(c) The military population expansion.
(d) The military population explosion.

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

11. Western civilization considered WWI as ___________ war due to its impact on European culture and history as well as the mystery surrounding the war itself.
(a) "The."
(b) "Some."
(c) "One."
(d) "A."

12. By mid-afternoon on April 6, nearly _______________ of Grant's army had deserted their posts and waited for a chance to escape the battlefield.
(a) One-half.
(b) One-third.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) One-fourth.

13. It was shown that Grant realized his error pre-war when making the distinction between who?
(a) The man who volunteered to enlist and the man who served as a soldier during peacetime.
(b) The American soldier and the European soldier.
(c) The northerner and the southerner.
(d) The wealthy soldier and the poor soldier.

14. Did Hitler occupy any of these grandiose lodgings?
(a) Yes, all the time.
(b) Yes, sometimes.
(c) Yes, but rarely.
(d) No.

15. Hitler was well known for adopting the axiom of whom?
(a) Schmidt.
(b) Müller.
(c) Clausewitz.
(d) Klein.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The regiment in which Hitler served was filled with the type of people Hitler longed to be with but what?

3. Overall, Hitler was considered to be a _______________ soldier.

4. Chapter seven, "Grant the Fighter", recalls what?

5. Keegan compares West Point to the British ____________________ located in Woolwich and France's École de Génie at Mezières.

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