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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What causes most of the casualties on Utah Beach?
(a) Mines.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Artillery fire.
(d) Flak.
2. What does the 12th Infantry, 8th Regiment worry about more than snipers as they try to meet up with the 82nd Airborne?
(a) Friendly fire.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Hedgerows.
(d) Being taken prisoner.
3. What do the troops use to blow holes in the barbed wire?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Rockets.
(c) Grenades.
(d) Banglores.
4. The 5th Ranger Battalion sets up its command post outside of __________.
(a) Les Moulins.
(b) Vierville.
(c) Calais.
(d) Point-du-Hoc.
5. Interrogators threaten to turn the German POWs over to whom?
(a) Gestapo.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Death camps.
(d) Russians.
6. Which German commander is wounded by shrapnel and taken aboard an Allied medical ship?
(a) Jodl.
(b) Rommel.
(c) Jahnke.
(d) Rundstedt.
7. The Atlantic Wall could be considered the greatest _________ in military history.
(a) Disaster.
(b) Asset.
(c) Blunder.
(d) Feat.
8. What is the code name for the two Allied submarines that cross the Channel two days early?
(a) Game.
(b) Gambit.
(c) Grosse.
(d) Gamble.
9. What are "Hobart's Funnies"?
(a) Tanks.
(b) Pranks.
(c) Subs.
(d) Snipers.
10. How do most Americans get their news about the war?
(a) Letters from the front.
(b) Movies.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Radio.
11. What does UDT stand for?
(a) Undercover Deception Timetable.
(b) Underwater Detonation Technique.
(c) Underwater Demolition Teams.
(d) Undercover Destroyer Teams.
12. What do many of the troops use as a shield on the beaches?
(a) Shoals and shale.
(b) Dead bodies.
(c) Landing craft ramps.
(d) Ammunition packs.
13. How high are the French hedgerows?
(a) 1.5 feet.
(b) 15 feet.
(c) 6-12 feet.
(d) 3 feet.
14. Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder is the leader of ___________.
(a) Civil engineers.
(b) Fighter pilots.
(c) 82nd Airborne.
(d) Ranger Company.
15. The landscape at the top of the cliffs reminds the Ranger Company of what?
(a) Cow pastures.
(b) Wheat fields.
(c) A moonscape.
(d) Swamp.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what hour does Rommel hear of the invasion?
2. In the closing paragraph of the book, Eisenhower says D-Day was fought for __________.
3. What do the Canadians give away to other troops because they expect to be evacuated?
4. What is the approximate number of Allied casualties from D-Day?
5. People at home wait and pray that who does not knock on their door?
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