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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. What was Djebel el Rhar?
(a) A desert river bed and useful hiding spot.
(b) A deep defile with no possibility of crossing it.
(c) A slightly lower crest to Djebel el Ahmera.
(d) A fortified tower manned by Italian troops.

2. What did Ward, Robinette and Dickson try to convince Fredendall, Eisenhower and Anderson of?
(a) That the German attack would not strike at the North.
(b) That the Germans would not attack until Spring.
(c) That the Allies were arranged in a dangerous position that allowed flanking by the Axis.
(d) That the Germans would attack, in concentration, in the North.

3. What strategic assessment did Arnim and Rommel agree on?
(a) That a 200 mile long bridgehead could be held without the assistance of Italian troops.
(b) That indecisive Allied commanders would not take the offensive in 1943.
(c) That high command must either provide sufficient supplies to the African armies or they would need to abandon Tunisia althogether.
(d) That the high command should focus on air power first and tank power second.

4. Who did Montgomery have a picture of above his desk?
(a) Rommel.
(b) Churchill.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Queen Victoria.

5. In what state did General Harold Alexander find the Allied command?
(a) Despondent and lacking resolve.
(b) Disorganized without a policy or a plan.
(c) Organized and poised for the offensive.
(d) In full retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strategic mistake did Fredendall make in regards to Faid Pass?

2. According to the author, what subtle changes had started to become evident in American troops towards the end of 1942?

3. Eisenhower promoted Clark to take command of the new 5th Army, who filled the vacancy to command II Corps?

4. What opportunity had been lost through what was referred to as a poorly executed bad plan to take Fondouk gap?

5. In the start of Chapter 7, which traveler was listed as 'Register Number 1.'

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Terry Allen order Bill Darby's rangers on a secret mission to attack the defile held by enemy artillery recently routed from Gafsa?

2. General Harold Alexander is introduced in Chapter 9, what was his position and what was his mission?

3. Rather than focusing on Faid Pass, to what area did Fredendall unsoundly direct the Allied efforts?

4. What two peculiarities does the author use to characterize Major General Orlando Ward?

5. General Sir Alan Brooke, is characterized as one of the great generals of the war. But what tragedy in 1925 changed his charmed life and what permanent effects did it have?

6. How was Longstop positioned so that it represented a strategic point?

7. Why was Fredendall's defense plan for Faid Pass considered a World War I defense?

8. How did the Axis 'draft' Tunisian Jews for work details around Bizerte and Tunis?

9. As the Allied forces fell into a "stuck-everywhere" period Patton started a row with Allied air for neglecting troops air cover. Due to this complaint, Patton was visited by the two most senior Allied airmen in North Africa. What punctuated this meeting?

10. Old Mac's counterattack at Faid Pass was probably too small a force, but what other mistake did Old Mac make in putting forth the attack?

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