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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Goring marry Emmy Sonnemann?
(a) April 10, 1935.
(b) June 28, 1935.
(c) March 3, 1935.
(d) May 9, 1935.

2. After postponing the date a couple time, when did Gorin set Eagle Day, his campaign against the RAF?
(a) August 17.
(b) August 9.
(c) August 13.
(d) August 11.

3. When did a formation of German bombers lose their way and mistakenly disobey orders not to bomb London?
(a) August 24.
(b) August 23.
(c) August 25.
(d) August 26.

4. When was the RAF Bomber Command established?
(a) April 1, 1918.
(b) May 11, 1917.
(c) June 3, 1918.
(d) March 3, 1916.

5. When Galland applied to the German Airline Pilot School, how many applications were submitted?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 18,000.

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

7. When did the Reichstag, Germany's legislature, begin meeting in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1931.

8. When did the first full moon of Churchill's premiership occur?
(a) May 30.
(b) May 24.
(c) May 27.
(d) May 21.

9. When did Churchill refuse Lord Beaverbrook's resignation?
(a) July 3.
(b) July 1.
(c) July 6.
(d) July 5.

10. How many of the crew from the German bomber that Colville and Moyra saw at Horse Pasture Farm were killed?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

11. For shooting down how many aircraft was Adolf Galland, German ace, awarded a third Knight's Cross in July of 1940?
(a) 14.
(b) 21.
(c) 17.
(d) 28.

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

13. When did Mary Churchill write her mother and ask permission to leave Breccles Hall?
(a) September 4.
(b) September 2.
(c) September 1.
(d) September 3.

14. Who is America's ambassador to Britain in 1940?
(a) Lewis Douglas.
(b) Walter Gifford.
(c) Joseph Kennedy.
(d) John Winant.

15. When did Gay Margesson visit Colville in London and they saw the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus?
(a) July 7.
(b) July 13.
(c) July 10.
(d) July 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day of Churchill's speech about the battle at Mers el-Kebir, where did 20 German dive-bombers attack?

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

3. What was the date of a photograph from an attack on Freiburg, Germany, that Goebbels planned to use for propaganda?

4. When did German aircraft begin bombing targets on the English mainland for the first time?

5. On July 2, how many Wehrmacht divisions did Hitler demobilize?

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