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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. In Chapter 11, how old was Stalin's daughter, Svetlana?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

2. In the Prologue, why was Patton in the hospital?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) War injury.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Horseback riding.

3. In Chapter 4, who was the ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya's lover?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Malenkov.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Khrushchev.

4. At the end of Chapter 9, how many days of sunshine did Patton pray for?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. How did Field Marshal Rommel die?
(a) Shot.
(b) Suicide pill.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Roosevelt first become president?

2. In Chapter 4, how many people were ordered to be killed by Stalin?

3. In Chapter 5, when did Roosevelt speak at Fenway Park?

4. In Chapter 6, how many Wehrmacht soldiers were located where the U.S. lines were the thinnest?

5. At the end of Chapter 11, in what countries were the Soviets fighting the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, what was Hitler doing to strike back at the Allies?

2. In The Prologue how is Beatrice, Patton's wife described?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 5, how is Roosevelt described?

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

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

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

7. How did Stalin's second wife die?

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

9. What was the Malmedy Massacre?

10. In Chapter 5, why did the authors say that Roosevelt was not a man of the people?

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