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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was lost during the paratroop drop on June 6?
(a) Their anti-tank guns.
(b) The communications equipment.
(c) Their water.
(d) Their light ammunition.

2. What was Company D's function after they were relieved by the paratrooper Battalion?
(a) Intelligence Company.
(b) Right flank cover.
(c) Left flank cover.
(d) Reserve company.

3. What did the Gondrees learn when the soldiers knocked on their door?
(a) They could not be trusted.
(b) They were British.
(c) They were German.
(d) They were American.

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

5. Who relieved Company D at the end of June 6, 1944?
(a) The 12th Royal Regiment.
(b) The Warwickshite Regiment.
(c) The 2nd Mechanized Regiment.
(d) The 43rd Marine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first allied soldier to die on D-Day?

2. Who was with Major Smith when he was captured?

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

4. What did the paratroopers think was happening at the bridges?

5. Why did Howard's special unit shrink after D-Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the morale of men low according to Ambrose?

2. What happened to von Luck?

3. What did General Gale do after he arrived at 0900 hours?

4. Who renamed the canal bridge? What was the new name?

5. What happened by 1800 hours according to Chapter 8, D-Day: 1200 to 2400 Hours?

6. What happened starting in 1984, according to Chapter 11, D-Day Plus Forty Years to D-Day Plus Fifty Years?

7. What happened between the Germans and Howard's troops, according to Ambrose?

8. Why was Howard's special unit shrinking?

9. What happened when the Warwickshire Regiment arrived?

10. What invasion began at dawn, according to Chapter 7, D-Day: 0600 to 1200 Hours?

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