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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Ask of others.
(c) Give of the German man.
(d) Ask of his family.

4. Chapter eight," Grant and American Democracy", details Grant's views on what?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Human rights.
(d) The Founding Fathers.

5. 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) Major.
(b) General.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Commander.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hitler believed the axiom meant that an army should first destroy his enemies in the field and then do what?

3. As a replacement for his presence, in what did Hitler engage?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the attack on Fort Sumter affect Grant? Why?

2. Describe Hitler's early military experience.

3. What was the myth regarding Hitler's war-time lodgings? Was this myth true?

4. Describe the soldiers in Grant's army.

5. How was Hitler affected by World War I?

6. Why was World War I called "the" war?

7. How does Grant's opinion of the progress of war compare to that of the other leaders mentioned? Why?

8. What was Hitler's impact on and relationship with his soldiers?

9. Who was Clausewitz? How was he misunderstood by Hitler?

10. How did Grant realize an error pre-war regarding his men?

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