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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 poet does Ambrose quote on the last page of the book?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Frost.
(d) Tennyson.

2. How do most Americans get their news about the war?
(a) Letters from the front.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Radio.
(d) Movies.

3. "Potato masher" is the troops' name for what?
(a) Germans.
(b) Mortars.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Mines.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scene at Easy Red is likened to what?

2. What does UDT stand for?

3. What is the code name for the two Allied submarines that cross the Channel two days early?

4. Of the 2,400 tons of supplies scheduled to reach Omaha Beach, how much gets ashore?

5. What has knocked out Jahnke's fortifications at Exit 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the "Sergeant York of World War II"?

2. What happens when a signalman mistakenly thinks the Vierville steeple is an observation point?

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

4. How does World War II dramatically change the lives of women on the home front?

5. How does Captain Rich assemble his plane after arriving on Omaha Beach?

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

7. What is the "best ally" the Allies had lost by dawn of D-Day?

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

9. Why do the Germans surrender Utah beach?

10. What are the Allies' mistakes during D-Day?

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