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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions: Aldbourne: July 13-September 16, 1944.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) December, 1942.
(c) August, 1942.
(d) October, 1942.

2. What was the name of the Army-planned a practice operation on a stretch of English coastline in preparation for D-Day?
(a) Operation Osprey.
(b) Operation Lynx.
(c) Exercise Tiger.
(d) The Jaguar strike.

3. Who became the victim of several training exercise pranks that made him appear incompetent in Chapter Two, "Stand Up and Hook Up: Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks: December 1942-September 1943"?
(a) Major Oliver M. Horton.
(b) Captain Herbert Sobel.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Strayer.
(d) Captain Lewis Nixon.

4. The men of Easy Company were rewarded after D-Day in England with new gear, pay and what?
(a) One-week passes.
(b) Cheeseburgers.
(c) Beer kegs.
(d) Movie tickets.

5. The plane carrying who was hit with bullets and exploded during its landing attempt in Chapter Four, "Look Out Hitler! Here We Come!: Slapton Sands, Upottery: April 1-June 5, 1944"?
(a) Captain Ronald C. Speirs.
(b) C.O. Thomas Meehan.
(c) First Lieutenant Frederick Theodore Heyliger.
(d) Captain Herbert M. Sobel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who verbally reprimanded the company for considering mutiny in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?

2. What were the men of Easy Company initially greeted with in London in Chapter Seven, "Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions: Aldbourne: July 13-September 16, 1944"?

3. Winters' group joined forces with how many men after their landing in Chapter Five, "Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944"?

4. What were the troops given for the first time when they flew out for D-Day in Chapter Four, "Look Out Hitler! Here We Come!: Slapton Sands, Upottery: April 1-June 5, 1944"?

5. In Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942" the author writes that never before had troops endured basic training at the same time as what training?

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