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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Rommel and Eisenhower first engage in battle?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Kasserine Pass.
(c) Ardennes.
(d) Sicily.

2. What do Allied troops eat three meals a day before the invasion?
(a) Steak.
(b) Rations.
(c) Hash.
(d) Lobster.

3. Where do the Germans pick up Capt. George Lane when he is doing reconnaissance on mines?
(a) English Channel.
(b) Pas-de-Calais.
(c) Calvados.
(d) Cotentin.

4. What does AEF stand for?
(a) Allied Executive Force.
(b) American Executive Force.
(c) Allied Expeditionary Force.
(d) American Expenditure Force.

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

6. What novel does Ambrose refer to when discussing the bomber missions?
(a) Catch 22.
(b) The Longest Day.
(c) Fall to Arms.
(d) Catcher in the Rye.

7. What are the "Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel" (LCVP) also known as?
(a) Safety Boats.
(b) Eureka Boats.
(c) U Boats.
(d) Omaha Boats.

8. Many of the German divisions are waiting on orders from whom?
(a) Rundstedt.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Dollmann.
(d) Rommel.

9. How many infantrymen crowd into the boats carrying them to the beach?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 30.
(d) 28.

10. Where is Rommel on June 4?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Inspecting the Atlantic Wall.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Visiting his wife.

11. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?
(a) SS Division.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Afrika Korps.
(d) Fifteenth Army.

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

13. The paratroopers gain a fearsome appearance with what?
(a) Tattoos.
(b) Mohawks.
(c) War paint.
(d) Piercings.

14. What is the code name for the Germans' elaborate deception to fool the Russians in 1942?
(a) Ziemke.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Kreml.
(d) Stalingrade.

15. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.
(a) Attrition.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fire power.
(d) Strategy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the German radar finally spot the Allied fleet?

2. What are B-17s known as?

3. What is the real name of the sexy-voiced Ohio girl known as "Axis Sally"?

4. What do the Germans guarding the artillery posts do to pass time in April and May?

5. What is the name of the subordinate who Rommel told, "the war is lost"?

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