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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) With his girlfriend.
(b) Visiting his wife.
(c) In jail.
(d) Dead.

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

3. Where is the command post of General Bradley?
(a) USS Texas.
(b) USS Augusta.
(c) USS Savannah.
(d) USS Ancon.

4. Who is the first American to stand atop the bluffs?
(a) Pvt. Eldon Wiehe.
(b) Sgt. Jim Henderson.
(c) Gen. George Rader.
(d) Capt. Joe Dawson.

5. What is the code name for the two Allied submarines that cross the Channel two days early?
(a) Gambit.
(b) Game.
(c) Gamble.
(d) Grosse.

6. What do the Canadians give away to other troops because they expect to be evacuated?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Money.
(c) Rations.
(d) Cigarettes.

7. In the closing paragraph of the book, Eisenhower says D-Day was fought for __________.
(a) Glory.
(b) Conquest.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Freedom.

8. Ambrose starts the chapter about the home front with a story about boys from ________ getting ready to ship out.
(a) Michigan.
(b) Maine.
(c) Montana.
(d) Mississippi.

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

10. Which German commander is wounded by shrapnel and taken aboard an Allied medical ship?
(a) Jahnke.
(b) Rommel.
(c) Jodl.
(d) Rundstedt.

11. How many men are under General Bradley's command?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 22,000.

12. What does the 12th Infantry, 8th Regiment worry about more than snipers as they try to meet up with the 82nd Airborne?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Friendly fire.
(c) Hedgerows.
(d) Being taken prisoner.

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

14. What does OWI stand for?
(a) Office of War Interrogation.
(b) Official War Information.
(c) Office of War Information.
(d) Official Work Interaction.

15. What is the 5th Ranger Battalion's objective?
(a) Calias.
(b) Vierville.
(c) Pointe-du-Hoc.
(d) Les Moulins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes the objective of the 1st Army Division?

2. What is the name for the naval demolition teams?

3. "Potato masher" is the troops' name for what?

4. How many weeks after D-Day do the Allies capture Caen?

5. What are "Hobart's Funnies"?

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