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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. Upon discovering the American fleet in the Mediterranean, where did Hitler believe it was destined?
(a) The Suez Canal to ensure Allied shipping.
(b) Tripoli or Benghazi to trap the Afrika Corps.
(c) Sicily to establish a launching point to Europe.
(d) Napels or Jerusalem to acquire oil.

2. What was operation WATCHTOWER?
(a) A covert mission to convince Vichy France to join the Allied cause.
(b) A pre-emptive strike by the Royal Air Force against North African Axis bases.
(c) The first Allied counter-offensive against Japan at Guadalcanal.
(d) The name of the original U.S. plan to attack Germany through France.

3. What was it that finally broke the Kasbah's defenses?
(a) Well placed Howitzers.
(b) Accurate fire from the beached destroyer, Dallas.
(c) Eight Navy dive bombers.
(d) Fifty troops led by Truscott stormed the gates.

4. What did Allen determine to do instead of following Colonel Greer's suggestion?
(a) Use air support and cover of night to take out specific enemy installations.
(b) Bypass St. Cloud.
(c) Bifurcate the city with tanks and take the high ground first.
(d) Concentrate his troops and make one desperate last push.

5. Against the wishes of his generals, the president of the United States canceled which plan in preference for a North African invasion?
(a) Watchtower.
(b) Sledgehammer.
(c) Rainbow 5.
(d) Charioteer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The signal "Advance Napoleon," was issues by Eisenhower which indicated what to the troops readying operation VILLAIN?

2. What did General Erich von Wulisch tell General Nogues in his farewell call before escaping Fedala?

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

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

5. What political arrangement with the French particularly caused a public outcry in both the U.S. and Britain?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What personal knowledge made Mark Clark a dangerous leader for a covert mission behind enemy lines?

3. 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?

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

5. Describe the term Anglo-American.

6. In the first tank battle of World War II between Germans and Americans, the commander, John Waters, used Captain Siglin's twelve tank force in what manner?

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

8. How did America support the Allied cause before formally joining the war?

9. What locations did the Allies use as a rouse for the destination of Hewitt's fleet and Task force 34, and what deception plans did they use to that end?

10. Describe 'the Boy Captain' Robert R. Moore.

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