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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Utah Beach is the code name for what part of the French coast?
(a) Cotentin.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Pas-de-Calais.
(d) Calvados.

3. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?
(a) Fifteenth Army.
(b) Sicily.
(c) SS Division.
(d) Afrika Korps.

4. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?
(a) James Clark Wilson.
(b) Andrew Jackson Higgins.
(c) William Rockefeller.
(d) Henry Ransom Paulding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does AEF stand for?

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

3. Who wants to sign onto the crew of one the King of England's ships?

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

5. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?

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