IN0736 PE4

Instructions

The following items will test your understanding of the material covered in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you have completed the exercise, check your answers with the answer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, review that part of the lesson which contains the portion involved.

1.

A commander may decide not to defend a built-up area if one of the following conditions exist.

	A. Does not have enough personnel to defend the built-up area.
	B. His desire to close with the enemy, changes the mission.
	C. Is denied tank support.
	D. Nearby terrain allows the enemy to bypass on covered or concealed routes.

2.

What should the defense of a built-up area be organized around?

	A. His armored vehicles.
	B. Key terrain.
	C. Special troops.
	D. The commanders command post.

3.

Why is it unwise to defend a village that allows easy bypass and offers no defendable terrain to units defending it?

	A. Because cover and concealment would be unavailable.
	B. The enemy could use air power to drive you out.
	C. This would allow friendly forces to be easily bypassed and cut off.
	D. Reinforcements could not gain entrance into the area.

4.

What is the normal frontage when employing a company or company team to defend a built-up area?

	A. One to two city blocks.
	B. Two to three city blocks.
	C. Two to four city blocks.
	D. Four to five city blocks.

5.

During the battalion TF's defense, the guard force, should do what?

	A. Call in for a smoke screen of the area.
	B. Concentrate on causing the enemy to deploy without engaging the enemy in decisive combat.
	C. Engage the enemy decisively.
	D. Fire on the approaching enemy, causing them to turn away from your defensive positions.

6.

When choosing a good engagement area, what is the best way infantrymen should engage tanks?

	A. Alternating fires.
	B. In pairs.
	C. One at a time.
	D. Salvo firing.

7.

You are occupying an antiarmor defensive position at ground-level, a enemy tank has just moved within 100 meters of your position and has presented its flank to you. Where is the best place to engage this tank?

	A. At the center of the turret.
	B. At the center of the hull.
	C. At the main gun.
	D. Over the second road wheel.

8.

Tanks support the platoon by engaging enemy tanks, providing reinforcing fires, aiding the disengagement of the platoons, and

	A. Acting as transports for the infantry.
	B. Covering obstacles by fire.
	C. Engages other armored vehicles.
	D. Provides the shock effect needed for counterattacks.

Military

Lesson 4

Practice Exercise