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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 44-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How deep was the mineshaft at the mine in Bernterode?
(a) 850 feet deep.
(b) 1,800 feet deep.
(c) 430 feet deep.
(d) 1,200 feet deep.

2. As Hermann Göring made his way toward his estate at Mauterndorf in May of 1945, his artwork was in transit to what location?
(a) Unterstein.
(b) Salzburg.
(c) Trier.
(d) Heilbronn.

3. Who was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(c) Major General John “Iron Mike” O’Daniel.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

4. On what date did the German forces surrender in Italy?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) May 2, 1945.
(c) March 20, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

5. When did Frederick William I die?
(a) 1640.
(b) 1725.
(c) 1740.
(d) 1802.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?

2. Who was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?

3. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?

4. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?

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