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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?
(a) CCS.
(b) SHAEF.
(c) DUKW.
(d) COSSAC.

2. How many days after D-Day does Germany's premier tank division arrive at the French coast?
(a) 13.
(b) 17.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

3. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?
(a) SS Division.
(b) Afrika Korps.
(c) Fifteenth Army.
(d) Sicily.

4. What river is a boundary between the German's Fifteenth and Seventh army divisions, providing an area of weakness for the Allies?
(a) Vire.
(b) Seulles.
(c) Orne.
(d) Seine.

5. Allies take a soil sample from the proposed landing site hoping not to find _________.
(a) Sand.
(b) Salt water.
(c) Peat fields.
(d) Oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the subordinate who Rommel told, "the war is lost"?

2. What is the Allies' best source for information about the Atlantic Wall?

3. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?

4. What is the Allied code name for the planned invasion for the spring of 1944?

5. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?

(see the answer key)

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