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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, D-Day Plus Three Months to D-Day Plus Fifty Years, pgs. 164-173.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sweeney and two other men find after being sent by Howard to reconnect with the regiment?
(a) A German General.
(b) A German armored vehicle.
(c) A stray puppy.
(d) A group of lost para troopers.

2. What did Howard and his men hear near the canal bridge?
(a) French resistance members.
(b) German infantry.
(c) German tanks.
(d) Their relief.

3. Who from Company C was ordered to report to the beaches from Company D?
(a) The glider pilots.
(b) Howard.
(c) The machine gunners.
(d) The doctors.

4. What did the Gondrees know about the soldiers by the bridge?
(a) They were British.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They were Germans.
(d) They were American.

5. According to the plan, who would relieve Howard after his mission was accomplished?
(a) The 23rd mechanized army.
(b) The 1st para division.
(c) The 7th Para Battalion.
(d) The 8th Infantry division.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who held the bridges on June 6th?

2. How many ships where off the cost of Normandy on June 6th?

3. What was issued to the men of Company D on May 29, 1944?

4. Howard decided that the men from glider #2 would ________________.

5. What did Bailey and other men do at the bridge as the attack started?

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