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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long would the fuel that the RAF fighters carried keep them flying?

2. To what newspaper did an American correspondent telegraph secret information about the Vichy government?

3. When did Roosevelt return to Washington after a trip on the Tuscaloosa?

4. In May what equipment was Beaverbrook working to increase production like he had for aircraft?

5. In Chapter 85, how many weeks ago had Churchill sent a warning to Stalin regarding German invasion plans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the Cafe de Paris on March 8?

2. How close did the king and queen come to getting bombed?

3. To whom did Mary Churchill become engaged in May, and how did her mother feel about the engagement?

4. Why did Goring summon Galland and Werner Molders to his hunting lodge in East Prussia?

5. Who was James Conant, and what did he say about the Lend-Lease Bill to Churchill at a dinner in March?

6. When was a parliamentary debate on Churchill's handling of the war take place and what were the results?

7. What was Churchill's special train like?

8. In Chapter 91, why were German pilots growing distrustful of their navigational beams?

9. How much time did Carnac Rivett, Pamela's doctor, start spending at Chequers in September?

10. Who was Harry Hopkins, and what did he look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beaverbrook constantly submitted his resignation to Churchill. How many times did Beaverbrook resign? How many times did Churchill refuse his resignation? What did their back and forth regarding the resignations reveal about tenacity?

Essay Topic 2

Churchill wanted Roosevelt to give Britain old U.S. destroyers. Why did Churchill want Roosevelt to give Britain old U.S. destroyers? How did Churchill and Roosevelt get the destroyers to England? Were they deceitful in their actions?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a book is the highest point of tension in the narrative and a turning point. What is the climax of The Splendid and the Vile and why is that incident the climax?

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