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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 does AEF stand for?
(a) American Executive Force.
(b) American Expenditure Force.
(c) Allied Expeditionary Force.
(d) Allied Executive Force.

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

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

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

5. Who says it is "the fury of an aroused democracy" that is the key to victory?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which American general is used as a decoy to fool the Germans about the location of D-Day?

2. What novel does Ambrose refer to when discussing the bomber missions?

3. What does Eisenhower want to use behind enemies lines attacking targets in France during D-Day?

4. At what hour on June 4 does Eisenhower give the order to proceed with the invasion?

5. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the role of the normally heralded fighter pilots?

3. What is operation Fortitude?

4. How is the "Transportation Plan" viewed by experts after the war?

5. What are the striking differences between Rommel and Eisenhower?

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

7. Why does Hitler believe an Anglo-American offensive poses a greater threat to Germany than the Russians?

8. What is the reason the Allies needed a soil sample from Calvados before a final decision could be made?

9. What is the experience of the troops in the Higgins boats as they are boarded to take part in the invasion?

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

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