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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Allied code name for the planned invasion for the spring of 1944?
(a) Overlord.
(b) Overboard.
(c) Outlook.
(d) Oberon.

2. What would be the perfect, yet too obvious, landing site for the D-Day invasion?
(a) Le Harve.
(b) Brittany.
(c) Pas-de-Calais.
(d) Calvados.

3. Who says it is "the fury of an aroused democracy" that is the key to victory?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Montgomery.

4. What is the name for the German army?
(a) Wehrmacht.
(b) Gestapo.
(c) Kriegsmarine.
(d) Waffen.

5. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?
(a) James Clark Wilson.
(b) Henry Ransom Paulding.
(c) William Rockefeller.
(d) Andrew Jackson Higgins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the code name for the Germans' elaborate deception to fool the Russians in 1942?

2. What is the landing site the Allies choose for the D-Day invasion?

3. How many airplanes per month is the U.S. producing by the end of 1943?

4. Who is a master of sabotage against the Germans?

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

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