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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Getting to Know the Enemy: Germany: April 2-30, 1945.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns?
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Bullets.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Shrapnel.

2. Who became the victim of several training exercise pranks that made him appear incompetent in Chapter Two, "Stand Up and Hook Up: Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks: December 1942-September 1943"?
(a) Major Oliver M. Horton.
(b) Captain Lewis Nixon.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Strayer.
(d) Captain Herbert Sobel.

3. The men of Easy Company traveled to where, which was eighty miles west of London, in September, 1943?
(a) Portsmouth.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Aldbourne.

4. What did Easy Company encounter and eradicate in Chapter Nine, "The Island: Holland: September 17-October 1, 1944"?
(a) An enemy tank.
(b) Enemy maps.
(c) Enemy planes.
(d) An enemy machine gun.

5. Who verbally reprimanded the company for considering mutiny in Chapter Three, "Duties of the Latrine Orderly: Aldbourne: September 1943-March 1944"?
(a) Major General Taylor.
(b) Major Horton.
(c) Colonel Sink.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel Strayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. German tanks eradicated Easy Company's supporting what in Chapter Eight, "Hell's Highway; Holland: October 2-November 25, 1944"?

2. The operation of eliminating the German battery contributed to the success of the beach invasion, as the location looked directly down upon what in Chapter Five, "Follow Me: Normandy, June 6, 1944"?

3. What were the troops given for the first time when they flew out for D-Day in Chapter Four, "Look Out Hitler! Here We Come!: Slapton Sands, Upottery: April 1-June 5, 1944"?

4. After how long at the battle at Carentan were the men of Easy Company relieved from the front lines?

5. What were the men served a large meal of before being ordered to run up Mount Currahee in Chapter One, "We Wanted Those Wings: Camp Toccoa: July-December 1942"?

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