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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 did the Spitfire drop on the men at the bridges on the morning of June 6th?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Food.
(c) Early editions of the London Papers.
(d) 250 pound bombs.

2. What was made depicting the action at the bridges?
(a) Books.
(b) Children stories.
(c) Comic books.
(d) Numerous movies.

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

4. Whose accounts, beside those of the British troops, were used in the depiction of the action at the bridges?
(a) The Gondree's.
(b) Romer's, Hickman's, and Erwin's.
(c) No other accounts were used.
(d) The French resistance members.

5. Where was Company D stationed after returning to England in Chapter 10, D-Day Plus Three Months to D-Day Plus Fifty Years?
(a) Bulford.
(b) Torquay.
(c) London.
(d) Essex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Romer, Hickman, and Erwin hide before surrendering on June,1944?

2. Where did Howard figure the paratroopers would start to land after the capture of the bridges?

3. What were Gardner, Bailey, Gray, and Parr trying to do at dawn on June 6th?

4. What happened on the bridges at 1000 hours on June 6th?

5. How many soldiers landed in Normandy on June 6th?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the paratroopers disoriented when they landed, according to Ambrose?

2. Why was Howard's special unit shrinking?

3. What did von Luck want to do according to Chapter 6?

4. Why did the British forces go into defensive mode in Chapter 9, D-Day Plus One to D-Day Plus Ninety?

5. What happened to von Luck?

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

7. What does Ambrose say of the villages of Benouville and Ranville?

8. Why did the Gondres spend the night in the cellar, according to Chapter 7, D-Day: 0600 to 1200 Hours?

9. In what endeavor was Howard instrumental?

10. What did the paratroopers think according to Ambrose?

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