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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who attacked Company D as they moved toward Escoville?
(a) 21st Panzer Division.
(b) 1st SS Panzer Division.
(c) 2nd Panzer Grenadier.
(d) Panzer Lehr.

2. What did Howard receive from the French after the war?
(a) A gold plated Colt 1911.
(b) Awards and citations.
(c) A visit from the President.
(d) An honorary doctorate.

3. What did the French do to the bridge over the canal?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Replaced it with a museum.
(c) Renamed it Howard Bridge.
(d) Renamed it Pegasus Bridge.

4. What did the British paratroopers find in the tunnels?
(a) French prisoners.
(b) Sleeping Germans.
(c) A printing press.
(d) Collaborators.

5. When did Poett reach the bridge?
(a) 0052 hours.
(b) 0254 hours.
(c) 0014 hours.
(d) 0315 hours.

6. What did Sweeney say he heard during a meeting about the current situation of the troops on the Pegasus bridge?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Bagpipes.
(c) Flutes.
(d) Horns.

7. Where were the relief troops for the bridge supposed to come from?
(a) There was no relief planned.
(b) The beaches.
(c) The French Resistance.
(d) A para drop.

8. What did Sweeney and two other men find after being sent by Howard to reconnect with the regiment?
(a) A German General.
(b) A group of lost para troopers.
(c) A stray puppy.
(d) A German armored vehicle.

9. When did the Allies secure Benouville?
(a) By 0525 on June 6.
(b) By 1800 hours on June 6.
(c) By 1900 hours on June 7.
(d) By 0350 on August 21.

10. How many ships where off the cost of Normandy on June 6th?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 7,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 8,500.

11. How many fatalities were suffered by the time Howard called for a platoon leader meeting?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

12. How far from the beaches did the British troops go on D-Day according to Chapter 9?
(a) To Lisieux.
(b) To Brest.
(c) 150 km from the coast.
(d) Not far beyond the Pegasus bridge.

13. Following his car accident, Howard was hospitalized until __________________.
(a) December, 1947.
(b) March, 1946.
(c) September, 1944.
(d) March, 1945.

14. How long did Howard's men sleep on the night of June 6th to the 7th?
(a) Ten hours.
(b) They had no sleep.
(c) Five hours.
(d) Two hours.

15. Where was Howard traveling to according to Chapter 11?
(a) Russia.
(b) Whole of England.
(c) Japan.
(d) Europe and U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. What increased as the day went by according to the start of Chapter 8, D-Day:1200 to 2400 Hours?

2. Whom was Howard lecturing according to Chapter 11?

3. Why did Howard's special unit shrink after D-Day?

4. How many soldiers landed in Normandy on June 6th?

5. Where did Romer, Hickman, and Erwin hide before surrendering on June,1944?

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