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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is handed out along with rations to the troops as they board vessels for the invasions?
(a) Condoms.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Cigarettes.

3. What is Maj. John Howard's D Company known as?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Bulls and Broncs.
(c) Ox and Bucks.
(d) Sharks.

4. More than 40 years later, what does German commander Luck believe would have been key to turning the battle?
(a) Controlling the villages.
(b) Controlling the beaches.
(c) Controlling the bridges.
(d) Taking more POWs.

5. How many ships are involved in D-Day?
(a) 2727.
(b) 2654.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 292.

6. The paratroopers gain a fearsome appearance with what?
(a) Piercings.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) Mohawks.
(d) War paint.

7. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?
(a) German artillery stockpiles.
(b) French and German farms.
(c) French railway system.
(d) German oil reserves.

8. Where do the Allies want the Germans to believe the D-Day invasion would be?
(a) Norway.
(b) Russia.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Ireland.

9. Where is the German army's last offensive on the Eastern Front?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Prague.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Kursk.

10. Who is Tetty, one of the best sub-agents, who is stealing oil from the Germans?
(a) A ten-year-old boy.
(b) A sixteen-year-old girl.
(c) A seventy-seven-year-old woman.
(d) An eighty-year-old man.

11. What are the best tanks that the Germans produce called?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Das Reich.
(c) Sand Sharks.
(d) Geshalts.

12. What are the "Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel" (LCVP) also known as?
(a) U Boats.
(b) Safety Boats.
(c) Eureka Boats.
(d) Omaha Boats.

13. How many members of the 101st Airborne are captured by Jahnke's Germans?
(a) 6.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

14. The Germans have an elite tank division, but lack the ______to sustain operations.
(a) Ammunition.
(b) Trained soldiers.
(c) Strategy.
(d) Fuel.

15. Rommel thinks the D-Day invasion would come when?
(a) May 15.
(b) June 5.
(c) May 1.
(d) June 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is praised by Eisenhower as "the man who won the war for us"?

2. What is the assignment of Sgt. Elmo Jones, 505th PIR?

3. What is the name of the command group in charge of planning D-Day?

4. What is the name for the German army?

5. What is the Russian army called?

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