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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two countries refused to send help during the Turkish advance?
(a) Italy and Russia.
(b) America and France.
(c) Britain and Belgium.
(d) Australia and Canada.

2. What successful operation tempted Roosevelt to make one of his few overseas journeys of the war?
(a) Operation Cockade.
(b) Operation Torch.
(c) Operation Overlord.
(d) Operation Jericho.

3. Who was advocating the making of an armistice with Germany?
(a) Frank Lloyd Frintain.
(b) Remy Thomas Martin.
(c) Marshal Henri Petain.
(d) Tate Michael Kingston.

4. Who replaced Churchill as Prime Minister?
(a) Clement Attlee.
(b) Charles de Gaulle.
(c) Herbert Henry Asquith.
(d) Tony Blair.

5. What did Hitler name the German Air Force?
(a) Allerdings.
(b) Unternehmen.
(c) Luftwaffe.
(d) Deutschen.

6. In 1941, what country's abandonment of neutrality could change the direction of the war?
(a) France.
(b) Israel.
(c) Hungary.
(d) United States.

7. How did Churchill feel about his failure to command attention while speaking?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Hurt and humiliated.
(c) Very angry.
(d) Resolved to improve.

8. Britain found itself at war with Germany for a second time after Hitler attacked what country?
(a) Austria.
(b) United States.
(c) Britain.
(d) Poland.

9. What was Hitler's most menacing rearmament measure?
(a) Creation of an air force.
(b) Introduction of nuclear tactics.
(c) Reintroduction of conscription.
(d) Creation of the U-boats.

10. What was Churchill's reputation in politics regarding work and welfare?
(a) Indifference toward work and welfare.
(b) Champion of work and welfare.
(c) Pro-work and welfare.
(d) Anti-work and welfare.

11. Where did the Big Three meet to discuss the post war settlement?
(a) Versailles.
(b) Yalta.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Washington D.C.

12. Where did the term "commandos" come from?
(a) German military dress.
(b) Churchill's writing.
(c) Boer military formations.
(d) Early air force maneuvers.

13. Whom was given the title "The 20th Centuries Great Champion of Liberty?"
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Montgomery.

14. What political cause did Churchill adopt at age 58?
(a) Pro-socialism.
(b) Opposition to appeasement.
(c) Women's Rights.
(d) Racial equality.

15. What event finally helped lift a great weight off of Churchill and paved the way for building his political career again?
(a) Publishing his third book.
(b) Acceptance into the Labour party.
(c) Appointment to Chancellor of Securities.
(d) Being cleared of blame for the Dardanelles incident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who replaced Asquith as Prime Minister?

2. Who replaced Roosevelt as President of the United States of America?

3. Who succeeded Truman in the American Presidency?

4. After a stroke in 1952, how did Churchill bring himself back to good health?

5. Who said, "I think we can generally say today that Hitler's dictatorship is gradually breaking down" before the beginning of WWII?

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