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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. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) “The Rough Riders.”
(b) “The Rock of the Marne.”
(c) “The Rolling Stone.”
(d) “The Albatross of the West.”

2. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?
(a) October, 1942.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) March, 1944.
(d) January, 1943.

3. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) William the Conqueror’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) Adolf Hitler’s.
(d) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.

4. 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?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Hermann Göring.
(c) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(d) Jacques Jaujard.

5. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?
(a) A Spanish spy.
(b) A German spy.
(c) A French spy.
(d) A Russian spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the letter dated that is from James Rorimer to his wife Katherine in the opening of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

2. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?

3. When did the U.S. forces catch up with Hans Frank, the notorious Nazi-governor-general of occupied Poland?

4. What name refers to vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort?

5. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?

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