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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. By nightfall on D-Day, there are 25,000 men ashore at the cost of how many casualties?

2. How many men are under General Bradley's command?

3. What is the approximate number of Allied casualties from D-Day?

4. What are "Hobart's Funnies"?

5. What does OWI stand for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the movie The Longest Day inaccurate?

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

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

7. How does "Rangers Lead the Way" become an official motto?

8. How is the situation with the wounded on D-Day unique in military history?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does using the memories of the men who took part in D-Day affect the integrity of the narrative? What are some possible distortions or misrepresentations in Ambrose's telling of D-Day?

Essay Topic 2

How does the image of a young soldier beside someone whose dead hand bobs, "Cornelia Otis Skinner's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" capture the essence of what happened on D-day?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the home fronts and the dramatic changes the war brought to the fabric of the various nations involved.

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