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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does ECB stand for?
(a) Engineer Company Boats.
(b) Engineer Combat Battalions.
(c) Echo Company Battalions.
(d) Echo Combat Boats.

2. What poet does Ambrose quote on the last page of the book?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Frost.

3. How many troops drop into Normandy on D-Day?
(a) 9000.
(b) 3500.
(c) 6600.
(d) 2500.

4. In the closing paragraph of the book, Eisenhower says D-Day was fought for __________.
(a) Glory.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Conquest.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does LCA stand for?

3. People at home wait and pray that who does not knock on their door?

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

5. Where is the one German general who would have disobeyed Hitler and launched a tank counter attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Americans criticize the British for after the events of D-Day are analyzed?

2. What is the story of Jacqueline Thornton on Sword Beach?

3. Why do the Rangers of the 116th A Company quickly lose their cockiness as they approach Omaha Beach?

4. Why do the Germans surrender Utah beach?

5. What else is happening with the Eisenhower family on June 6, 1944?

6. Who are the POWs that the 2nd Battalion, 16th Regiment see being lead toward them at first light?

7. How do the Canadian divisions fare on Juno Beach?

8. How does World War II dramatically change the lives of women on the home front?

9. Who is the "Sergeant York of World War II"?

10. What happens to Capt. John Tillett and his prized carrier pigeons?

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