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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eisenhower want to use behind enemies lines attacking targets in France during D-Day?
(a) Bombers.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Snipers.
(d) Fighter jets.

2. How long is the flight over England and the Channel for the paratroopers?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 30 minutes.

3. Where is Eisenhower born?
(a) Maine.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Kansas.

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

5. How many infantry divisions does Germany have in France when they first meet the Allies on the French coast?
(a) 5 divisions.
(b) 50 divisions.
(c) 30 divisions.
(d) 10 divisions,

6. At what time does the German radar finally spot the Allied fleet?
(a) 0409.
(b) 0609.
(c) 0309.
(d) 0709.

7. Maj. A. J. C. Rosevear is assigned to destroy three bridges on the ______ River.
(a) Dives.
(b) Orne.
(c) Douve.
(d) Sienne.

8. Who says it is "the fury of an aroused democracy" that is the key to victory?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.

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

10. How much do the bombs weigh that the B-17s drop?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) 1000 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 50 pounds.

11. Who is the American commander in the Pacific in 1943?
(a) Munson.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Montgomery.

12. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?
(a) Andrew Jackson Higgins.
(b) William Rockefeller.
(c) Henry Ransom Paulding.
(d) James Clark Wilson.

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

14. What does Rommel say he wants to be when the war ends?
(a) Electrical engineer.
(b) Hydraulic engineer.
(c) General.
(d) American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bombers are shot down by Luftwaffe on D-Day?

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

3. Pegasus Bridge is on which river?

4. What are the Vergeltungswaffen?

5. What are B-26s known as?

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