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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two issues particularly occupied the minds of the American strategists planning Torch?
(a) German U-boats and Japanese dive bombers.
(b) The training of troops on two different continents and how to merge the forces while at sea.
(c) That minimal British troops accompany the initial landings and where to make the landings.
(d) If the plan had been leaked to the Germans and Vichy France's certain role in fighting the landings.

2. What written warning from superiors did Commander Terry Allen burn?
(a) That aircover would not be provided.
(b) That the French should not be considered hostile.
(c) That the French would show resolve in repelling the attack.
(d) That the British planned to outflank him.

3. On January 1, 1942, twenty-six countries signed an agreement to forswear any separate peace without mutual concurrence and to make a common cause of "life, liberty independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve the rights of man and justice." This group of nations called themselves:
(a) NAFTA.
(b) The Allies.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) The International Democratic Union.

4. According to the author, North Africa is where the Axis forever lost:
(a) Access to Sicily.
(b) Their initiative.
(c) Field Marshall Rommel.
(d) Casablanca as an assault base to Washington D.C.

5. According to General Patten, it was his expectation of an officer to:
(a) Lead from the rear and let the troops do the fighting.
(b) Move ahead.
(c) Defer to their British counterparts.
(d) Spread chaos through the destruction of civilian property.

Short Answer Questions

1. America declared war on Germany upon:

2. What events occurred to the disappointment of Hitler around 1941?

3. According to the author, what was operation VILLAIN?

4. What two particular subjects did Mark Clark know of that would have made him a valuable capture for the Axis Cause?

5. According to Rear Admiral Bennett, the RESERVIST plan was:

(see the answer key)

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