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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the one German general who would have disobeyed Hitler and launched a tank counter attack?
(a) In jail.
(b) With his girlfriend.
(c) Visiting his wife.
(d) Dead.

2. Interrogators threaten to turn the German POWs over to whom?
(a) Russians.
(b) Gestapo.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Death camps.

3. What is Sgt. Harrison Summers awarded for his bravery in taking the German barracks?
(a) Presidental Award.
(b) Distinguished Service Cross.
(c) Congressional Medal of Honor.
(d) Purple Heart.

4. The Atlantic Wall could be considered the greatest _________ in military history.
(a) Feat.
(b) Blunder.
(c) Disaster.
(d) Asset.

5. What does LCA stand for?
(a) Landing Craft Advisory.
(b) Landing Craft, Assurance.
(c) Landing Craft Auxillery.
(d) Landing Craft, Assault.

6. What has knocked out Jahnke's fortifications at Exit 2?
(a) Liberators.
(b) Flying Fortresses.
(c) Freedom Fighters.
(d) Marauders.

7. What accidentally gets eaten in England before they can be put aboard a plane to Normandy?
(a) Doves.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Eagles.

8. What is the name for the naval demolition teams?
(a) Scuttles.
(b) Seabees.
(c) Bombadiers.
(d) Washers.

9. What becomes the objective of the 1st Army Division?
(a) Pointe-du-Hoc.
(b) Colleville.
(c) Vierville.
(d) Pouppeville.

10. What poet does Ambrose quote on the last page of the book?
(a) Frost.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Tennyson.

11. How many men are sent with Sgt. Harrison Summers to capture the German barracks WXYZ?
(a) 15.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 12.

12. The landscape at the top of the cliffs reminds the Ranger Company of what?
(a) Cow pastures.
(b) Swamp.
(c) Wheat fields.
(d) A moonscape.

13. Who is commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War I?
(a) Colonel George Marshall.
(b) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) General George Patton.
(d) General John J. Pershing.

14. Which beach do the Canadians take?
(a) Utah.
(b) Juno.
(c) Gold.
(d) Sword.

15. How long does it take Ranger Company to get most of the men to the top of the cliffs at Omaha?
(a) Fifteen minutes.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Thirty minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ambrose starts the chapter about the home front with a story about boys from ________ getting ready to ship out.

2. How many troops drop into Normandy on D-Day?

3. Many of the medics on D-Day are actually what?

4. How do most Americans get their news about the war?

5. What is the 5th Ranger Battalion's objective?

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