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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. How old was Roosevelt when he married Eleanor?
(a) 23.
(b) 29.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

2. In Chapter 6, who was the first American to accurately predict the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Col. Oscar Koch.
(c) General Patton.
(d) Roosevelt.

3. When was the Central Intelligence Agency born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1942.

4. How many planes did the Germans lose when they launched Operation Baseplate on January 1, 1945?
(a) 275.
(b) 425.
(c) Nearly 300.
(d) Almost 400.

5. In Chapter 6, how many Wehrmacht soldiers were located where the U.S. lines were the thinnest?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the German invasion of Russia, how many Soviet men and boys in uniform died?

2. How many years did Peiper serve in prison for war crimes?

3. At the end of Chapter 8, how many Germans came under a white flag asking the Americans to surrender at Bastogne?

4. How many years did Alexei Kapler spend in a gulag for the crime of loving Joseph Stalin's daughter?

5. In Chapter 4, how long ago did the Germans attack the Russians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Stalin's plan at the end of Chapter 11?

2. At the end of Chapter 2, what was Operation Greif?

3. What was Adolf Hitler's physical condition in Chapter 10?

4. What was the Malmedy Massacre?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 3, why was Eisenhower troubled?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what did the authors believe that the Germans were thinking before their attack?

7. In Chapter 9, how would Patton travel to encourage his troops?

8. In Chapter 12 what happened to the town of Assenois?

9. In the Prologue, how was Patton injured?

10. In Chapter 12, what did Patton do on Christmas Day?

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