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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The Jaguar strike.
(c) Operation Osprey.
(d) Operation Lynx.

3. 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"?
(a) Oliver M. Horton.
(b) Dick Winters.
(c) Robert L. Strayer
(d) Clarence Hester.

4. The objective of Market-Garden was to take control of what?
(a) Roads and bridges.
(b) Airports and bus stations.
(c) Runways and towers.
(d) Peaks and valleys.

5. What was Winters promoted to at the end of Chapter Six, "Move Out!: Carentan: July 7-July 12, 1944"?
(a) General.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) Captain.
(d) Sergeant.

6. What were the men served a large meal of before being ordered to run up Mount Currahee in Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942"?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Cheeseburgers.
(c) Fish and chips.
(d) Steak and potatoes.

7. In Chapter Eight, "Hell's Highway; Holland: October 2-November 25, 1944," American troops marched south, to a village called what?
(a) Style.
(b) Sorin.
(c) Stoll.
(d) Son.

8. Where did Easy Company continue to lead the march in Chapter Eight, "Hell's Highway; Holland: October 2-November 25, 1944"?
(a) Naples.
(b) Neunen.
(c) Normandy.
(d) Naperville.

9. The men of Easy Company traveled to where, which was eighty miles west of London, in September, 1943?
(a) Portsmouth.
(b) Aldbourne.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Liverpool.

10. What caused the planes' V-formation to break off during the flight in on D-Day?
(a) Hail storms.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Cloud banks.
(d) Flocks of birds.

11. Who led the final assault on the third and final German gun in the battery in Chapter Five, "Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944"?
(a) Lieutenant Ronald Speirs.
(b) Captain Salve H. Matheson.
(c) Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe.
(d) First Lieutenant Henry Jones.

12. Who transferred Winters out of Easy Company as the battalion mess officer in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?
(a) Major Oliver M. Horton.
(b) Colonel Robert Frederick Sink.
(c) Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe.
(d) Major Strayer.

13. When did the Easy Company complete basic training?
(a) November, 1942.
(b) March, 1943.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) January, 1943.

14. In the battle at Carentan, supporting troops from Fox Company and what company fell back from the front lines?
(a) Dog Company.
(b) Walrus Company.
(c) Cat Company.
(d) Turtle Company.

15. What refers to a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area?
(a) Rat nest.
(b) Bear den.
(c) Wolf den.
(d) Foxhole.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Island in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944" was surrounded by what?

2. Who took over as Commanding Officer of Easy Company after their current commander was shot in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?

3. The men who completed five successful jumps in parachute training received a certificate and what to denote them certified parachutists?

4. 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?

5. 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"?

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