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

2. What causes most of the casualties on Utah Beach?
(a) Flak.
(b) Mines.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Artillery fire.

3. Interrogators threaten to turn the German POWs over to whom?
(a) Death camps.
(b) Gestapo.
(c) Russians.
(d) Hitler.

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

5. Where is the one German general who would have disobeyed Hitler and launched a tank counter attack?
(a) With his girlfriend.
(b) Visiting his wife.
(c) In jail.
(d) Dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What poet does Ambrose quote on the last page of the book?

3. What is the name for the naval demolition teams?

4. Sgt. Harrison Summers became known as the _____ of World War II.

5. What is the code name for the two Allied submarines that cross the Channel two days early?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the situation with the wounded on D-Day unique in military history?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the "best ally" the Allies had lost by dawn of D-Day?

7. How is Omaha Beach constituted to give advantage to the Germans?

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

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

10. Why do the Germans surrender Utah beach?

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