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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Soldier's Dream Life: Austria: May 8-July 31, 1945.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lieutenant Winters and ten other men receive at the end of Chapter Six, "Move Out!: Carentan: July 7-July 12, 1944"?
(a) The Distinguished Service Cross citation.
(b) The Gold Star.
(c) The Medal of Honor.
(d) The Silver Star.

2. How many of Easy Company's boats made it across the river in Chapter Fourteen, "The Patrol: Haguenau: January 18-February 23, 1945"?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. Where did the ship with Easy Company arrive in September, 1943?
(a) Newcastle, England.
(b) Blackpool, England.
(c) Bristol, England.
(d) Liverpool, England.

4. The day after Christmas in 1944, whose battalion broke through the German lines, providing much-needed food, supplies and support?
(a) General Taylor's.
(b) General Patton's.
(c) General Smith's.
(d) General McAuliffe's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What soldier from Easy Company was lost in Chapter Fourteen, "The Patrol: Haguenau: January 18-February 23, 1945" from a grenade fragment in his skull?

2. In Chapter Eight, "Hell's Highway; Holland: October 2-November 25, 1944," commanding officers ordered the battalion to eliminate the German troops that located where?

3. How many divisions were set to do a daytime drop in the risky operation Easy Company was assigned to in Chapter Seven, "Healing Wounds and Scrubbed Missions: Aldbourne: July 13-September 16, 1944"?

4. Who killed an insubordinate American soldier in Normandy, causing some disagreement about him among the troops?

5. Berchtesgaden was a village populated with whom?

(see the answer key)

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