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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Eisenhower believe is a skill that could be learned and not an art?
(a) Strategy.
(b) Organization.
(c) Leadership.
(d) War.

5. What are the troops given to communicate with each other once they are on the ground?
(a) Whistles.
(b) Toy crickets.
(c) Flares.
(d) Radios.

6. What would be the perfect, yet too obvious, landing site for the D-Day invasion?
(a) Brittany.
(b) Le Harve.
(c) Calvados.
(d) Pas-de-Calais.

7. How many divisions do the Allies have in France when they first meet German troops in 1944?
(a) Five divisions.
(b) Fifty divisions.
(c) Ten divisions.
(d) Twleve divisions.

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

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

10. What is the name of the subordinate who Rommel told, "the war is lost"?
(a) Reichert.
(b) Luck.
(c) Von Horn.
(d) Lecht.

11. How many ships are involved in D-Day?
(a) 292.
(b) 2727.
(c) 2654.
(d) 20,000.

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

13. Which American general is used as a decoy to fool the Germans about the location of D-Day?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Patton.

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

15. More than 40 years later, what does German commander Luck believe would have been key to turning the battle?
(a) Controlling the villages.
(b) Controlling the bridges.
(c) Taking more POWs.
(d) Controlling the beaches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is handed out along with rations to the troops as they board vessels for the invasions?

3. Who says that the Allies' best chance is the "blast"?

4. What is the name of Eisenhower's dog that he acquires during the war?

5. What is Rommel given command of in 1940?

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