Multiple choice

Rommel considered June 4, as a good time to leave because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.

It was 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 4, 1944. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, Commander-in-chief of the German Army Group B—guarding the occupied French coast facing the English Channel—was traveling in a car next to the driver’s seat. He was tired of waiting for the Allied invasion to begin. Leaving on this particular dismal Sunday morning suited Rommel fi ne. The timing of the trip could not have been better for the weather was so bad that the Allies would not even think of a landing. Beside him, on the seat was a cardboard box containing a pair of handmade grey-shade shoes, size 5 (1/2), for his wife Lucie-Maria. There was a special and very human reason why he wanted to be with her on Tuesday, June 6. It was her birthday.

  1. the weather conditions ruled out an allied invasion

  2. by then the enemy was not ready for the attack

  3. all his junior Generals were present there

  4. he had to consult Hitler
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Explanation

The weather was so bad that there was no chance of an attack, so it was a good time.

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