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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder is the leader of ___________.
(a) 82nd Airborne.
(b) Fighter pilots.
(c) Civil engineers.
(d) Ranger Company.

3. Which unit of paratroopers drops where they are supposed to with minimum problems?
(a) 1st Battalion of the 505th.
(b) 3rd Battalion of 222nd.
(c) 4th Battalion of the 325th.
(d) 2nd Battalion of the 505th.

4. What is the name for the German army?
(a) Gestapo.
(b) Kriegsmarine.
(c) Wehrmacht.
(d) Waffen.

5. Where is the German army's last offensive on the Eastern Front?
(a) Prague.
(b) Kursk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French girl leading Maj. A. J. C. Rosevear and his team to the bridges want them to blow up instead?

2. What does the SHAEF stand for?

3. Where do the Germans build the Atlantic Wall?

4. Many of the German divisions are waiting on orders from whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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