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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?
(a) Withheld the 7th Artillery division.
(b) Withheld any air cover.
(c) Required him attack on a more circuitous route.
(d) Withheld half of the 10th Panzer division's tanks.

2. What excuse did Patton cite for disobeying orders regarding the planned bombardment of Casablanca.
(a) Excessive enemy resistance.
(b) Lack of assumed air superiority.
(c) Pressure from U boats in the channel.
(d) Bulky communications.

3. The death of Admiral Darlan is considered to have had what effect on the Allies?
(a) Relief.
(b) Regret.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Confusion.

4. Upon the capitulation of the French, what 'natural order' was quickly re-established?
(a) British generalship.
(b) Mutual distrust.
(c) French superiority.
(d) Franco-American amity.

5. Who made the following criticism: "The best way to describe our operations to date, is that they have violated every recognized principle of war, are in conflict with all operational and logistic methods laid down in textbooks, and will be condemned, in their entirety, by all Leavenworth and war college classes for the next twenty-five years."
(a) Churchill.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Pyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said the following: "...infantry, like whiskey, loses potency when diluted."

2. What hunch of Eisenhower's in regards to General Giraud looks to be accurate?

3. What was stated as the reason for the decision to defer the advance on Tunis?

4. Who was General Nehring replaced by?

5. Of the Fifty-two Sherman tanks caught in the German attack Fruhlingswind how many survived?

(see the answer key)

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