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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Note to Readers to Part One: The Rising Threat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many paintings, sculptures, and tapestries did Goring confiscate from Jewish households?
(a) 1,100.
(b) 900.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 1,400.

2. At what temperature was the water for Churchill's baths?
(a) 95.
(b) 98.
(c) 93.
(d) 90.

3. During Operation Dynamo, how many men had Churchil estimated would be evacuated from France?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 55,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 65,000.

4. How old was Marigold Churchill when she died?
(a) 3 years and 2 months.
(b) 1 year and 11 months.
(c) 2 years and 9 months.
(d) 4 years and 8 months.

5. How many consecutive nights of bombing occurred over London in 1940 to 1941?
(a) 48.
(b) 23.
(c) 39.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first full moon of Churchill's premiership occur?

2. In May of 1940, how many Americans opposed a declaration of war?

3. How dod Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, make his fortune?

4. In Chapter 7, how long ago had John Colville asked Gay Margesson to marry him?

5. In Chapter 5, how many more aircraft did British strategists believe that the Germans had compared to the RAF?

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