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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. The U.S. 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions are composed of volunteers known as what?
(a) Suicide squads.
(b) Second squads.
(c) Sucker squads.
(d) Silence squads.

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

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

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

5. Where is the German army's last offensive on the Eastern Front?
(a) Kursk.
(b) Prague.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the commander who wants the paratroopers to be utilized better during the war?

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

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

5. What is the name for the German navy?

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