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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened on the bridges at 1000 hours on June 6th?
(a) A German private surrender.
(b) The 21st Panzer counter attack?
(c) A German fighter dropped a bomb.
(d) Gardner was shot and killed.

2. When was Caen liberated?
(a) January, 1945.
(b) August, 1944.
(c) December, 1944.
(d) June, 1944.

3. How long did Howard's men sleep on the night of June 6th to the 7th?
(a) They had no sleep.
(b) Ten hours.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Two hours.

4. What was Howard instrumental in saving according to Ambrose?
(a) The Gondree's cafe.
(b) Romer's life.
(c) The Gondree's marriage.
(d) The name of the Pegasus Bridge.

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

6. What did the cafe become on June 6th?
(a) A medical station.
(b) A battalion aid post.
(c) A rest area.
(d) A command post.

7. What did Company D become after June 6?
(a) An infantry company.
(b) A tank company.
(c) A mechanized company.
(d) It was disbanded.

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

9. When did Howard retire?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1958.

10. What was Company D given after returning to England?
(a) A tour of London.
(b) Double rations.
(c) A night out.
(d) Leave.

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

12. What direction did Howard and his men start moving after being relieved?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

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

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

15. Whom was Howard lecturing according to Chapter 11?
(a) History researchers.
(b) Post grad history students.
(c) British Cadets.
(d) NATO Cadets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What led the Germans to postpone their counter attack on the bridge according to Chapter 6?

2. Who relieved Company D at the end of June 6, 1944?

3. How far from the beaches did the British troops go on D-Day according to Chapter 9?

4. Where did Romer, Hickman, and Erwin hide before surrendering on June,1944?

5. What did the German resistance force the British troops to do in the weeks following the invasion of Europe?

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