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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first allied soldier to die on D-Day?
(a) Howard.
(b) Poett.
(c) Parr.
(d) Brotheridge.

2. Who attended the celebrations for the capture of the Pegasus bridge prior to 1984 according to Chapter 11, D-Day Plus Forty Years to D-Day Plus Fifty Years?
(a) The public.
(b) Allied soldiers only.
(c) Howard and Gale alone.
(d) Only those who participated.

3. How many planes provided air cover to the allied landing troops?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

4. Why were the paratroopers disoriented when they landed according to Ambrose?
(a) They didn't have their communication gear.
(b) They didn't have their commanding officers.
(c) They couldn't find the Ranville church steeple.
(d) They were being shot at.

5. How many soldiers landed in Normandy on June 6th?
(a) 127,000
(b) 369,000.
(c) 254,000.
(d) 25,000.

6. What did the German resistance force the British troops to do in the weeks following the invasion of Europe?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Go in defensive mode.
(c) Choose another route to Germany.
(d) Attack harder.

7. How many ships where off the cost of Normandy on June 6th?
(a) 8,500.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 5,000.

8. What did Howard and his men do when paratroopers arrived at the bridges?
(a) They briefed them.
(b) They deployed them immediately.
(c) They used them as couriers.
(d) They used them on the front line.

9. What happened at dawn on June 6th?
(a) Bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) The loss of Sicily.
(c) The seaborne invasion.
(d) The end of the fighting in North Africa.

10. What did the Germans decide to wait for before trying another counter attack?
(a) More ammunitions.
(b) More troops.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Their commanding officer.

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

12. Who lit flares to guide the paratroopers to their drop zones?
(a) Pathfinders.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Path locators.
(d) Renegade German soldiers.

13. Where were the planes and gliders at Oxford heading to?
(a) Arnhem.
(b) Berlin.
(c) The Pacific.
(d) London.

14. Where were the relief troops for the bridge supposed to come from?
(a) The French Resistance.
(b) There was no relief planned.
(c) The beaches.
(d) A para drop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the British paratroopers find in the tunnels?

2. What was highly publicized and celebrated?

3. What did the cafe become on June 6th?

4. Whom was Howard lecturing according to Chapter 11?

5. What time did Howard finish setting up his defensive position around the bridge?

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