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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ME-262's are to be known as what?
(a) Blitz-bombers.
(b) Troop carriers.
(c) Spy planes.
(d) Fighter jets.

2. Ambrose starts the chapter about the home front with a story about boys from ________ getting ready to ship out.
(a) Maine.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Montana.

3. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?
(a) Bradley.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Marshall.

4. What is H-Hour scheduled to be on D-Day?
(a) 0500.
(b) 0530.
(c) 0600.
(d) 0630.

5. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Capt. George Lane meet with when he is captured by the Germans when he is doing reconnaissance on mines?

2. How many men are sent with Sgt. Harrison Summers to capture the German barracks WXYZ?

3. Which German commander is wounded by shrapnel and taken aboard an Allied medical ship?

4. What is the code name for the two Allied submarines that cross the Channel two days early?

5. What are B-26s known as?

(see the answer key)

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