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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. Major Rudolph Barlow's surprise attack on an an Axis airfield discovered outside the city of Djedejida resulted in what?
(a) The destruction of the final remnants of the Italian Airforce.
(b) Capture through an Axis ambush.
(c) The loss of Company C in a German counter attack.
(d) The destruction of over twenty German planes.

2. According to the author, what makes Medjez-el-Bab a strategically important location?
(a) It has several large airfields and whomever controls the air, controls North Africa.
(b) Through it is the sole land route to Tunis.
(c) It is 30 miles from Tunis and straddles the Medjerda River.
(d) Located on a high plateau, it is easily defended.

3. What "huge, chairborn force" of more than 1,000 officers and 15,000 enlisted troops occupied 2,000 pieces of real estate in Algiers?
(a) AFHQ
(b) OPEC
(c) The United Nations
(d) The Luftewaffe

4. Hitler reinforced Tunis because of what realization, according to the author?
(a) That the American claim to plan a landing on the shores of Normandy was a rouse.
(b) That Italy would not be able to adequately face the size of the Allied force there.
(c) That North Africa could be used as a platform for the invasion of southern Europe.
(d) That the Vichy French alliance had collapsed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rommel was rewarded the Field Marshal's Baton for:

2. What was General Giraud's stated expectation upon reaching Gibraltar?

3. According to General Patten, it was his expectation of an officer to:

4. What excuse did Patton cite for disobeying orders regarding the planned bombardment of Casablanca.

5. According to the author, General Patton had condensed his extensive study of history and military art down to one manifesto. What was it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia.

2. What particular naval skill in Hewitt know for?

3. Who supposedly made the following statement? "Whoever has Medjez-el-Bab has the key to the door, and is the master of all Tunisia."

4. How did the coincidental presence of Admiral Darlan negatively effect the mission of Robert Murphy?

5. In Admiral Esteva's response to Hooker Doolittle that "they had better hurry up, because the others will be here within forty-eight hours," who is represented by 'they' and who is represented by 'the others.' And who won the race?

6. What was the motto of the Big Red One?

7. What considerations did Terry Allen cite in bypassing St. Cloud?

8. Describe the unusual mortar round fired by American troops landing at Arzew.

9. What was the building the Allies referred to as the Kasbah?

10. An aspect of TORCH that affected each layer of command was a lack of information about how the coordinated effort was going. According to the author, how was Patton's approach to this ambiguity different?

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