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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Blood and Dust.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On August 14 how many aircraft were lost?
(a) 21 Luftwaffe and 5 RAF aircraft.
(b) 10 Luftwaffe and 11 RAF aircraft.
(c) 19 Luftwaffe and 8 RAF aircraft.
(d) 9 Luftwaffe and 18 RAF aircraft.

2. When did German aircraft begin bombing targets on the English mainland for the first time?
(a) June 5.
(b) June 4.
(c) June 7.
(d) June 1.

3. By September 7, how many barges were in the Belgian city of Ostend, when a week earlier there had been only 18?
(a) 155.
(b) 270.
(c) 194.
(d) 260.

4. In Chapter 7, how long ago had John Colville asked Gay Margesson to marry him?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

5. How dod Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, make his fortune?
(a) Banking.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Grocery business.
(d) Newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the electoral college, how did Roosevelt win?

2. When did Churchill refuse Lord Beaverbrook's resignation?

3. By May 1941, how much was collected for the Spitfire Fund?

4. When did Goring marry Emmy Sonnemann?

5. For shooting down how many aircraft was Adolf Galland, German ace, awarded a third Knight's Cross in July of 1940?

(see the answer key)

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