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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Major.
(c) General.
(d) Commander.

3. 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 quell the growing political conflict throughout the country.
(c) When it was to exacerbate the political differences between the north and the south.
(d) When it was to free the slaves.

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

5. 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 explosion.
(b) The military population growth.
(c) The military population development.
(d) The military population expansion.

6. 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-fifth.
(c) One-third.
(d) One-fourth.

7. Keegan goes into detail about Grant's habits and methods as what?
(a) A speaker.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A fighter.
(d) A leader.

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

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

10. Where did Hitler spend much of his time during the war?
(a) In bleak surroundings and in mosquito-infested forests.
(b) In an apartment in Berlin.
(c) In large, beautiful lodgings.
(d) In Belgium.

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

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 Keegan states that if there is any one historical document that details the Civil War in its entirety, that document would be what?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

13. The army was down to about ________ thousand men.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

14. 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) Whose circle he had not once been admitted into.
(c) Did not understand him.
(d) Were too busy to include him.

15. Hitler believed the axiom meant that an army should first destroy his enemies in the field and then do what?
(a) Clean up the field.
(b) Burn the capital.
(c) Occupy their capital.
(d) Return home.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was shown that Grant realized his error pre-war when making the distinction between who?

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).

3. What political was Grant a part of?

4. Keegan outlines Hitler's strategies and includes pertinent information from various sources, including notes from a conference in ___________________.

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

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