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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does RAF stand for?
(a) Royal Aeiral Force.
(b) Radar Air Freight.
(c) Radar Aerial Freighter.
(d) Royal Air Force.

2. What does the SHAEF stand for?
(a) Strategy Handling Allied Executive Force.
(b) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.
(c) Strategy Handling Allied Expeditionary Force.
(d) Supreme Headquarters Allied Executive Force.

3. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Montgomery.

4. What is Sgt. Harrison Summers awarded for his bravery in taking the German barracks?
(a) Purple Heart.
(b) Presidental Award.
(c) Distinguished Service Cross.
(d) Congressional Medal of Honor.

5. What does Eisenhower believe is a skill that could be learned and not an art?
(a) Strategy.
(b) Organization.
(c) Leadership.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?

2. How many troops drop into Normandy on D-Day?

3. Maj. A. J. C. Rosevear is assigned to destroy three bridges on the ______ River.

4. How many days after D-Day does Germany's premier tank division arrive at the French coast?

5. At what hour does Rommel hear of the invasion?

(see the answer key)

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