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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 are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 70 percent.

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

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

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

5. Who wants to sign onto the crew of one the King of England's ships?
(a) Prince Edward.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is H-Hour scheduled to be on D-Day?

2. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?

3. What does the SHAEF stand for?

4. Where is Eisenhower born?

5. What compounds Germany's strategic problems as the war goes on?

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