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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would be the perfect, yet too obvious, landing site for the D-Day invasion?
(a) Pas-de-Calais.
(b) Le Harve.
(c) Brittany.
(d) Calvados.

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

3. What do the Canadians give away to other troops because they expect to be evacuated?
(a) Rations.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Ammunition.
(d) Money.

4. "Potato masher" is the troops' name for what?
(a) Mortars.
(b) Mines.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Germans.

5. The objective of Ranger Company is taking ___________.
(a) Ste. Marie-du-Mont.
(b) Pouppeville.
(c) Pointe-du-Hoc.
(d) La Madeleine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the losses predicted by Commander Leigh-Mallory?

2. What do many of the troops use as a shield on the beaches?

3. Which German commander is wounded by shrapnel and taken aboard an Allied medical ship?

4. How many divisions do the Allies have in France when they first meet German troops in 1944?

5. Interrogators threaten to turn the German POWs over to whom?

(see the answer key)

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