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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 Kluge's position in the military?
(a) Chief of Staff.
(b) Field Marshall.
(c) General.
(d) Pilot.

2. What disintegrated the Italian Army near Rostov?
(a) Defectors.
(b) Rampant illness.
(c) Hunger.
(d) The Soviet forces.

3. How far was the Soviet Army from Rostov when the emphasis was placed on the Caucasus region?
(a) 200 miles.
(b) 400 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 300 miles

4. What did Manstein call the time in Crimea when he was neither on the offensive or the defensive?
(a) A treatise.
(b) A stalemate.
(c) A peace time.
(d) A break.

5. Where was Groddock killed?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) France.
(d) Crimea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Manstein's son die?

2. What about the forces in the Crimean Region were inferior?

3. Who kept delaying the Operation Citadel?

4. Who captured the bridge at Kalach?

5. What did Manstein say was Hitler's main weakness in battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conditions made fighting in Crimea difficult?

2. What were Western forces poised to do in the summer of 1943?

3. What complaint did Manstein have about the troops that were covering him at Stalingrad?

4. What strange situation did Hitler cause by not trusting his Chiefs of Staff?

5. Why did Manstein not join the conspirators against Hitler?

6. What lie did Goring tell Hitler about the Stalingrad troops?

7. Who was Antonescu mad at, and why?

8. How did Manstein get his troops to outflank the enemy at Sevastapol?

9. What did General Hoth accomplish at Rostov?

10. What was the town ok Kursk in Manstein's eyes?

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