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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who interviews Eisenhower about D-Day in 1964?
(a) Walter Cronkite.
(b) Mike Wallace.
(c) Dan Rather.
(d) Ernie Pyle.

2. Where is Eisenhower born?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Maine.

3. Who are considered the knights in shining armor of World War II?
(a) Allied commanders.
(b) Battalion leaders.
(c) Submarine captains.
(d) Fighter pilots.

4. Who is the first American to stand atop the bluffs?
(a) Sgt. Jim Henderson.
(b) Gen. George Rader.
(c) Capt. Joe Dawson.
(d) Pvt. Eldon Wiehe.

5. What is the 5th Ranger Battalion's objective?
(a) Calias.
(b) Pointe-du-Hoc.
(c) Les Moulins.
(d) Vierville.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Sherman tanks also know as?

2. How many infantrymen crowd into the boats carrying them to the beach?

3. The area on the French coast between the beach and the bluffs was called the ___________.

4. At what hour does Rommel hear of the invasion?

5. The lesson Hitler took from World War I is that Germany could not win a war of __________.

(see the answer key)

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