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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What portion of parachute training were the men of the Easy Company excused from?
(a) Physical training.
(b) Psychological training.
(c) Sleep deprivation.
(d) Parachute packing.

2. Where did Easy Company board a train for in May, 1943?
(a) Sturgis, Kentucky.
(b) Athens, Georgia.
(c) Springfield, Missouri.
(d) Springfield, Illinois.

3. Growing dissatisfaction with Sobel's lack of tactical skill made some officers consider approaching who about the problem in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?
(a) Major Oliver M. Horton.
(b) Major Clarence Hester.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Strayer.
(d) Colonel Sink.

4. After how much time in parachute training did the Easy Company make their first jump?
(a) 100 hours.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 weeks.

5. What tanks arrived at Easy Company's location after the successful invasion on D-Day?
(a) Italian Semoventes.
(b) British Valentines.
(c) American Sherman tanks.
(d) British Vickers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the ship with Easy Company arrive in September, 1943?

2. Who led the frontal assault while the machine gunners provided support on the German machine guns in Chapter Five, "Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944"?

3. What is the elevation of Mount Currahee?

4. When did Easy Company's regiment move to the Alabama side of the Fort in Chapter Two, "Stand Up and Hook Up: Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks: December 1942-September 1943"?

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

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