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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Allies' best source for information about the Atlantic Wall?
(a) Submarine surveillance.
(b) Postcards.
(c) French Resistance.
(d) Night flyovers.

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

4. The navy refers to "crafts" as being under _________ feet and "ships" as being anything over that.
(a) 500.
(b) 400.
(c) 200.
(d) 300.

5. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Churchill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Germans guarding the artillery posts do to pass time in April and May?

2. Who says that the Allies' best chance is the "blast"?

3. What is Maj. John Howard's D Company known as?

4. What does Eisenhower believe is a skill that could be learned and not an art?

5. What are B-24s known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What efforts does Rommel make to defend the French coastline in addition to the Atlantic Wall?

2. How does the British airborne fare in comparison to the dismal deployment of the American paratroopers?

3. How does the French Resistance help the Allies as they prepare for D-Day?

4. What role do the hedgerows along the French coast play in the battle of D-Day?

5. How does the weather effect the start of the invasion?

6. How does Hitler misjudge the need for fighter jets over bombers?

7. Who is Pvt. Franz Gockel and what is his view the morning of the invasion?

8. What is Rommel doing in the days before the invasion?

9. What are the "sausages" the Allies refer to?

10. What purpose does the British Double Cross System serve in the war?

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