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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. When did Churchill order the start of Operation Dynamo?
(a) May 31.
(b) May 20.
(c) May 27.
(d) May 26.

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

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

4. In Chapter 5, how many more aircraft did British strategists believe that the Germans had compared to the RAF?
(a) 5 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 2 times.
(d) 4 times.

5. When did Britain declare war on Germany?
(a) September 3, 1939.
(b) October 11, 1939.
(c) November 1, 1939.
(d) December 20, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size was the German bomb named Satan?

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

3. How far was the Churchill family estate from London?

4. How many consecutive nights of bombing occurred over London in 1940 to 1941?

5. How old was Marigold Churchill when she died?

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