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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Bradley.

3. What are the Freiwilligen?
(a) Special ops.
(b) Volunteers.
(c) Spies.
(d) Elite pilots.

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

5. What compounds Germany's strategic problems as the war goes on?
(a) Troop morale.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Spies.
(d) Shortages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real name of the sexy-voiced Ohio girl known as "Axis Sally"?

2. Rommel thinks the D-Day invasion would come when?

3. Who is the American commander in the Pacific in 1943?

4. What are the best tanks that the Germans produce called?

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

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