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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Americans beat the Germans in battle prior to D-Day?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Ardennes.
(c) Kasserine Pass.
(d) Sicily.

2. What does Eisenhower want to use behind enemies lines attacking targets in France during D-Day?
(a) Fighter jets.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Bombers.
(d) Snipers.

3. What are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 60 percent.

4. Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder is the leader of ___________.
(a) Ranger Company.
(b) 82nd Airborne.
(c) Fighter pilots.
(d) Civil engineers.

5. Which unit of paratroopers drops where they are supposed to with minimum problems?
(a) 2nd Battalion of the 505th.
(b) 3rd Battalion of 222nd.
(c) 4th Battalion of the 325th.
(d) 1st Battalion of the 505th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the troops use to blow holes in the barbed wire?

2. What is handed out along with rations to the troops as they board vessels for the invasions?

3. Where do Roosevelt and Churchill meet with Stalin in 1943?

4. What do the troops call their inflatable life vests?

5. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?

(see the answer key)

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