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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many troops has the U.S. assembled and trained by 1943?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 7.2 million.

2. What is the name of the subordinate who Rommel told, "the war is lost"?
(a) Lecht.
(b) Luck.
(c) Reichert.
(d) Von Horn.

3. Which American general is used as a decoy to fool the Germans about the location of D-Day?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Patton.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Marshall.

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

5. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.
(a) Politics.
(b) Attrition.
(c) Fire power.
(d) Strategy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Allies take a soil sample from the proposed landing site hoping not to find _________.

2. What would be the perfect, yet too obvious, landing site for the D-Day invasion?

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

4. Where do the Americans beat the Germans in battle prior to D-Day?

5. What is the name for the German army?

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