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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the favorite boredom killer in the days leading up to the invasion?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Radio.
(c) Television.
(d) Drinking.

2. What is always the weakest spot on any Allied line during the war?
(a) The lack of a strong navy.
(b) The boundary between the American and British armies.
(c) The boundary between the Germans and Russians.
(d) The gap between the air assault and ground fire.

3. Who is the biggest advocate of the Oil Plan?
(a) Tedder.
(b) Spaatz.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Eisenhower.

4. What does Ambrose have framed on the wall of his office?
(a) Eisenhower's order of the day.
(b) D-Day maps.
(c) Rommel's invasion defense plans.
(d) A letter from Churchill.

5. How many days after D-Day does Germany's premier tank division arrive at the French coast?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The U.S. 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions are composed of volunteers known as what?

3. What is the name for the German army?

4. What river is a boundary between the German's Fifteenth and Seventh army divisions, providing an area of weakness for the Allies?

5. The ME-262's are to be known as what?

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