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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Allies' best source for information about the Atlantic Wall?
(a) Submarine surveillance.
(b) French Resistance.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Night flyovers.

2. What does "Nous Restons Ici" mean?
(a) Never give up.
(b) We are staying here.
(c) Never surrender.
(d) We will remember.

3. What would be the perfect, yet too obvious, landing site for the D-Day invasion?
(a) Brittany.
(b) Calvados.
(c) Pas-de-Calais.
(d) Le Harve.

4. What do Allied troops use to keep water out of their riffles during the invasion?
(a) Corks.
(b) Band-aids.
(c) Condoms.
(d) Wax.

5. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?
(a) 25.
(b) 6.
(c) 20.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the soldier from who forgets his name when asked by Eisenhower?

2. People at home wait and pray that who does not knock on their door?

3. How many divisions do the Allies have in France when they first meet German troops in 1944?

4. Who is the first American to stand atop the bluffs?

5. "Potato masher" is the troops' name for what?

(see the answer key)

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