1. 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) March, 1944.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) October, 1944.

2. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Last Standing Table.
(b) Lost Station Tank.
(c) Landing Ship, Tanks.
(d) Last Significant Territory.

3. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) November, 1944.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) February, 1945.
(d) September, 1944.

4. 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”?
(a) Jacques Jaujard.
(b) George A. Taylor.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Lamont Moore.

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?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 13,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

3. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?

4. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?

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

(see the answer key)

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