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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through They Got Us Surrounded-the Poor Bastards: Bastogne: December 19-31, 1944.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Easy Company entrenched itself, in what style, on an area nicknamed the Island in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?
(a) WWI style.
(b) French-Indian war style.
(c) Mexican war style.
(d) Civil War style.

2. When Winters was promoted in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944" it had been how long since his previous promotion?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 26 months.
(c) 10 weeks.
(d) 10 years.

3. Who eventually took control of Easy Company after Winters' promotion in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?
(a) First Lieutenant Robert Rousch.
(b) First Lieutenant Sterling W. Horner.
(c) Second Lieutenant Henry Jones.
(d) First Lieutenant Fred Heyliger.

4. Easy Company was assigned to a risky and vital operation where in Chapter Seven, "Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions: Aldbourne: July 13-September 16, 1944"?
(a) Italy.
(b) Poland.
(c) Spain.
(d) Belgium.

5. Who verbally reprimanded the company for considering mutiny in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?
(a) Colonel Sink.
(b) Major Horton.
(c) Major General Taylor.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel Strayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ultimatum did the company officers give Major Strayer in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Alrbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?

2. How many Germans comprised the companies which were pushed back in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?

3. The men of Easy Company traveled to where, which was eighty miles west of London, in September, 1943?

4. Who attempted to keep the men's spirits high although morale was low due to the dreadful conditions in Chapter Eleven, "They Got Us Surrounded - The Poor Bastards: Bastogne: December 19-31, 1944"?

5. Easy Company relieved troops near what area that was being held by an entire division in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?

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