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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Dread.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What battle fleet did Vice Admiral Sir J. F. Somerville have at his disposal for Operation Catapult?
(a) 27 ships and an aircraft carrier.
(b) 17 ships and an aircraft carrier.
(c) 25 ships and an aircraft carrier.
(d) 20 ships and an aircraft carrier.

2. When did Churchill order the start of Operation Dynamo?
(a) May 20.
(b) May 26.
(c) May 31.
(d) May 27.

3. What date did Basil Collier, a leading Battle of Britain historian, say set the world on course toward Hiroshima?
(a) August 19.
(b) August 11.
(c) August 24.
(d) August 27.

4. How men died on the Bretagne on July 3?
(a) 1,348.
(b) 1,297.
(c) 1,153.
(d) 1,498.

5. On August 15, how many aircraft did the Luftwaffe lose?
(a) 81.
(b) 93.
(c) 75.
(d) 64.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Pamela and Randolph Churchill married?

2. How many daughters did Lord Queenborough have?

3. In Chapter 22, how many people were killed in Aberdeen, Scotland, when a single bomber attacked?

4. How old was Winston Churchill in 1940?

5. When did the Reichstag, Germany's legislature, begin meeting in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin?

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