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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Field Marshal Rommel die?
(a) Hanged.
(b) Shot.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Suicide pill.

2. How old was Roosevelt when he contracted polio?
(a) 22.
(b) 18.
(c) 39.
(d) 31.

3. In Chapter 6, which group ignored the warning that the Germans might be planning an attack to the north in the Ardennes Forest?
(a) Third Army.
(b) Fourth Army.
(c) Second Army.
(d) First Army.

4. In Chapter 4, who was the ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya's lover?
(a) Khrushchev.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Malenkov.
(d) Lenin.

5. When was the Central Intelligence Agency born?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Patton graduate from West Point?

2. Where did the events in Chapter 1 take place?

3. On December 9, 1944, what operation was Patton planning on launching?

4. In 1944, how many times had Eisenhower fought in battle?

5. In Chapter 8, what river did Eisenhower say that the Germans must not be allowed to cross?

(see the answer key)

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