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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the best tanks that the Germans produce called?
(a) Sand Sharks.
(b) Das Reich.
(c) Geshalts.
(d) Tigers.

2. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?
(a) German artillery stockpiles.
(b) French and German farms.
(c) German oil reserves.
(d) French railway system.

3. Where does Eisenhower spend most of 1943 commanding troops?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Africa.
(d) France.

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

5. What is used to drop the Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines?
(a) M-626s.
(b) C-47 "Dakotas".
(c) C-37 "Devils".
(d) F-150s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always the weakest spot on any Allied line during the war?

2. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?

3. How many troops has the U.S. assembled and trained by 1943?

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

5. The ME-262's are to be known as what?

(see the answer key)

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