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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the bomber pilots think is Hitler's "secret weapon"?
(a) Low lying wires.
(b) Snipers.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Clouds.

2. What is the code name for the British system for breaking the German Enigma encoding machine?
(a) Excalibur.
(b) Usher.
(c) Ultra.
(d) Extra.

3. Where is the German army's last offensive on the Eastern Front?
(a) Kursk.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Prague.
(d) Berlin.

4. Utah Beach is the code name for what part of the French coast?
(a) Calvados.
(b) Pas-de-Calais.
(c) Cotentin.
(d) Normandy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date that Eisenhower originally sets for D-Day?

2. What is the name of the commander who wants the paratroopers to be utilized better during the war?

3. How many infantrymen crowd into the boats carrying them to the beach?

4. What are the groups of paratroopers jumping from each plane called?

5. What are the best of the young German recruits called?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the similarities in the backgrounds of Eisenhower and Rommel?

2. What causes the panzer unit to arrive fourteen days late to Normandy?

3. What roles do Rommel and Eisenhower have in World War I?

4. What is Rommel doing in the days before the invasion?

5. Who is Pvt. Franz Gockel and what is his view the morning of the invasion?

6. Why does Hitler believe an Anglo-American offensive poses a greater threat to Germany than the Russians?

7. What does Eisenhower say in the orders given out as troops head to the invasion site?

8. What role do the hedgerows along the French coast play in the battle of D-Day?

9. How does Hitler misjudge the need for fighter jets over bombers?

10. What goes wrong with many of the paratroopers' jumps during the invasion?

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