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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the groups of paratroopers jumping from each plane called?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Sausages.
(c) Clicks.
(d) Crickets.

2. What is the landing site the Allies choose for the D-Day invasion?
(a) Pas-de-Calais.
(b) Brittany.
(c) Le Harve.
(d) Calvados.

3. What are the best tanks that the Germans produce called?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Das Reich.
(c) Geshalts.
(d) Sand Sharks.

4. What is the code name for the Allies' elaborate plan to fool the Germans about D-Day?
(a) Ultra.
(b) Overkill.
(c) Normandy.
(d) Fortitude.

5. Who says that the Allies' best chance is the "blast"?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many weeks after D-Day do the Allies capture Caen?

2. Where does Eisenhower go to college?

3. What do the troops call their inflatable life vests?

4. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?

5. How high are the French hedgerows?

(see the answer key)

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