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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, D-Day Plus One to D-Day Plus Ninety, pgs. 150-163.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the paratroopers think was happening at the bridges?
(a) Heavy fighting.
(b) Light fighting.
(c) Company D's capture.
(d) Nothing.

2. What did Bailey and other men do at the bridge as the attack started?
(a) Hid.
(b) Died.
(c) Threw grenades into the pillbox.
(d) Jumped in the river.

3. Who fired the Piat weapon?
(a) Brotheridge.
(b) Howard.
(c) Thornton.
(d) Poett.

4. How did the man killed in glider #2 die?
(a) He drowned.
(b) He died from a head trauma.
(c) He was shot by a German.
(d) He had a heart attack.

5. How many fatalities were suffered by the time Howard called for a platoon leader meeting?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the local resistance leader?

2. Whose body was laying near the cafe?

3. What did Howard learn about at the regiment headquarters?

4. What did Howard insist all the men in his company do?

5. Where was the 6th Airborne stationed in 1943?

(see the answer key)

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