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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Allies take a soil sample from the proposed landing site hoping not to find _________.
(a) Salt water.
(b) Oil.
(c) Sand.
(d) Peat fields.

2. What are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 70 percent.

3. What does SOS stand for?
(a) Supply or Services.
(b) Services of Supply.
(c) Service of Ships.
(d) Save Our Ships.

4. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.
(a) Strategy.
(b) Attrition.
(c) Politics.
(d) Fire power.

5. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?
(a) SHAEF.
(b) DUKW.
(c) COSSAC.
(d) CCS.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the German divisions are waiting on orders from whom?

2. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?

3. What is the name of the subordinate who Rommel told, "the war is lost"?

4. What is the code name for the British system for breaking the German Enigma encoding machine?

5. Who is the American commander in the Pacific in 1943?

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