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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Allies' best source for information about the Atlantic Wall?
(a) Postcards.
(b) Night flyovers.
(c) Submarine surveillance.
(d) French Resistance.

2. What is the code name for the Allies' elaborate plan to fool the Germans about D-Day?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Ultra.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Overkill.

3. Where do the Germans pick up Capt. George Lane when he is doing reconnaissance on mines?
(a) Pas-de-Calais.
(b) Cotentin.
(c) Calvados.
(d) English Channel.

4. Where is the most extensive Assault Training Center?
(a) Sandhurst.
(b) Woolacombe.
(c) Slapton Sands.
(d) West Point.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to drop the Allied paratroopers behind enemy lines?

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

3. What is the code name for the British system for breaking the German Enigma encoding machine?

4. The Germans have an elite tank division, but lack the ______to sustain operations.

5. Which American commander stands up and symbolically throws the thick book of D-Day plans over his shoulder?

(see the answer key)

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