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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 Howard know about the Gondrees?
(a) They owned a cafe.
(b) They were resistance.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They were collaborators.

2. What was issued to the men of Company D on May 29, 1944?
(a) Their map of the Pegasus bridge area.
(b) The rifles.
(c) Their cyanide capsule.
(d) The escape aid kits.

3. What did the members of the 6th airborne know would be coming sometime?
(a) The loss of Gibraltar.
(b) The loss of Karthoum.
(c) An invasion of North Africa.
(d) A European invasion.

4. 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.

5. Who from Company C participated in operation Market Garden?
(a) Poett.
(b) Wallwork and Thornton.
(c) Howard.
(d) Gale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George and Theresa Gondree do for a living?

2. What made the training ground Howard and its men trained on special?

3. For how long was Von Luck a POW?

4. What did Howard and his men do when paratroopers arrived at the bridges?

5. Where were the relief troops for the bridge supposed to come from?

(see the answer key)

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