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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 does the SHAEF stand for?
(a) Strategy Handling Allied Expeditionary Force.
(b) Strategy Handling Allied Executive Force.
(c) Supreme Headquarters Allied Executive Force.
(d) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

2. What do the Germans guarding the artillery posts do to pass time in April and May?
(a) Dig trenches.
(b) Fortify the Atlantic Wall.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Write letters home.

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

4. What are the Vergeltungswaffen?
(a) Elite troops.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Spies.
(d) Vengeance weapons.

5. Allies take a soil sample from the proposed landing site hoping not to find _________.
(a) Oil.
(b) Sand.
(c) Salt water.
(d) Peat fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Germans build the Atlantic Wall?

2. Where does Eisenhower give an impromptu graduation address in the spring of 1944?

3. What does Rommel say he wants to be when the war ends?

4. German generals warn Rommel that he should keep his tanks out of range of what?

5. Who says it is "the fury of an aroused democracy" that is the key to victory?

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