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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes most of the casualties on Utah Beach?
(a) Tanks.
(b) Mines.
(c) Flak.
(d) Artillery fire.

2. What do Allied troops eat three meals a day before the invasion?
(a) Lobster.
(b) Rations.
(c) Steak.
(d) Hash.

3. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Churchill.

4. What is used to drop the Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines?
(a) M-626s.
(b) F-150s.
(c) C-37 "Devils".
(d) C-47 "Dakotas".

5. What is attached to the LCTs by wire cable as they make their way to the beach?
(a) Radios.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Flags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?

2. The ME-262's are to be known as what?

3. Who interviews Eisenhower about D-Day in 1964?

4. Who is Tetty, one of the best sub-agents, who is stealing oil from the Germans?

5. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?

(see the answer key)

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