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

2. What do the troops use to blow holes in the barbed wire?
(a) Rockets.
(b) Banglores.
(c) Rifles.
(d) Grenades.

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

4. What is the deepest the Allies penetrate the French coast on D-Day?
(a) 25 kilometers.
(b) 10 kilometers.
(c) 12 kilometers.
(d) 2 kilometers.

5. What do many of the troops use as a shield on the beaches?
(a) Ammunition packs.
(b) Landing craft ramps.
(c) Shoals and shale.
(d) Dead bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accidentally gets eaten in England before they can be put aboard a plane to Normandy?

2. At what hour does Rommel hear of the invasion?

3. How many men are sent with Sgt. Harrison Summers to capture the German barracks WXYZ?

4. The British Airborne Division was criticized for not pushing into ________.

5. What does the 12th Infantry, 8th Regiment worry about more than snipers as they try to meet up with the 82nd Airborne?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the movie The Longest Day inaccurate?

2. Why do the Rangers of the 116th A Company quickly lose their cockiness as they approach Omaha Beach?

3. What else is happening with the Eisenhower family on June 6, 1944?

4. How do the Canadian divisions fare on Juno Beach?

5. What happens to Capt. John Tillett and his prized carrier pigeons?

6. How do the warships contribute to D-Day?

7. What is the story of Jacqueline Thornton on Sword Beach?

8. How is Omaha Beach constituted to give advantage to the Germans?

9. Who are the POWs that the 2nd Battalion, 16th Regiment see being lead toward them at first light?

10. How does Eisenhower describe his feelings to Walter Cronkite 20 years after the invasion?

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