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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who interviews Eisenhower about D-Day in 1964?
(a) Walter Cronkite.
(b) Mike Wallace.
(c) Ernie Pyle.
(d) Dan Rather.

2. What group is the first to attend the Assault Training Center?
(a) 250th Rangers.
(b) 81st Airborne.
(c) 101st Infantry.
(d) 29th Division.

3. What is the assignment of Sgt. Elmo Jones, 505th PIR?
(a) Pathfinder.
(b) Skipper.
(c) Gunner.
(d) Paratrooper.

4. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?
(a) SHAEF.
(b) COSSAC.
(c) CCS.
(d) DUKW.

5. What does the SHAEF stand for?
(a) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.
(b) Strategy Handling Allied Expeditionary Force.
(c) Strategy Handling Allied Executive Force.
(d) Supreme Headquarters Allied Executive Force.

6. How many minesweepers clear the Channel for the Allies?
(a) 3200.
(b) 375.
(c) 250.
(d) 2500.

7. The U.S. 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions are composed of volunteers known as what?
(a) Suicide squads.
(b) Sucker squads.
(c) Second squads.
(d) Silence squads.

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

9. Who are the "Old Ladies"?
(a) Destroyers.
(b) Carriers.
(c) Battleships.
(d) Submarines.

10. What is the date that Eisenhower originally sets for D-Day?
(a) June 5.
(b) June 6.
(c) June 4.
(d) June 7.

11. Where does Eisenhower go to college?
(a) West Point.
(b) Notre Dame.
(c) Annapolis.
(d) Harvard.

12. What is the code name for the British system for breaking the German Enigma encoding machine?
(a) Extra.
(b) Excalibur.
(c) Ultra.
(d) Usher.

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

14. Rommel thinks the D-Day invasion would come when?
(a) May 15.
(b) May 1.
(c) June 15.
(d) June 5.

15. Where do Roosevelt and Churchill meet with Stalin in 1943?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Tehran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the soldier from who forgets his name when asked by Eisenhower?

2. What is the name for the German army?

3. What are the groups of paratroopers jumping from each plane called?

4. Pegasus Bridge is on which river?

5. Where do the Allies want the Germans to believe the D-Day invasion would be?

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