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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does D-Day portray as being cowardly?
(a) Boat skippers.
(b) Coxswains.
(c) Paratroopers.
(d) Bomber pilots.
2. What has knocked out Jahnke's fortifications at Exit 2?
(a) Marauders.
(b) Freedom Fighters.
(c) Flying Fortresses.
(d) Liberators.
3. What do many of the troops use as a shield on the beaches?
(a) Ammunition packs.
(b) Shoals and shale.
(c) Dead bodies.
(d) Landing craft ramps.
4. What are "Hobart's Funnies"?
(a) Snipers.
(b) Pranks.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Subs.
5. What poet does Ambrose quote on the last page of the book?
(a) Frost.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Shakespeare.
6. Where is the one German general who would have disobeyed Hitler and launched a tank counter attack?
(a) In jail.
(b) Dead.
(c) Visiting his wife.
(d) With his girlfriend.
7. What does OWI stand for?
(a) Official Work Interaction.
(b) Official War Information.
(c) Office of War Information.
(d) Office of War Interrogation.
8. How long do the Canadians spend in Normandy?
(a) Three days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.
9. The scene at Easy Red is likened to what?
(a) Hollywood western.
(b) Chicago slaughterhouse.
(c) Bar brawl.
(d) Operating room.
10. The landscape at the top of the cliffs reminds the Ranger Company of what?
(a) Wheat fields.
(b) Swamp.
(c) Cow pastures.
(d) A moonscape.
11. What do the troops call their inflatable life vests?
(a) Pin-ups.
(b) Marilyns.
(c) Mae Wests.
(d) Debbies.
12. What is the approximate number of Allied casualties from D-Day?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 2500.
(c) 4900.
(d) 11,000.
13. What causes most of the casualties on Utah Beach?
(a) Artillery fire.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Flak.
(d) Mines.
14. Many of the medics on D-Day are actually what?
(a) Women.
(b) Cooks.
(c) Volunteers.
(d) Clerks.
15. Which German commander is wounded by shrapnel and taken aboard an Allied medical ship?
(a) Jahnke.
(b) Rommel.
(c) Jodl.
(d) Rundstedt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Sherman tanks also know as?
2. What does LCA stand for?
3. What is the deepest the Allies penetrate the French coast on D-Day?
4. What becomes the objective of the 1st Army Division?
5. What do the Canadians give away to other troops because they expect to be evacuated?
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