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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. 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) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) George A. Taylor.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Lamont Moore.

2. Whose name was on the casket that was adorned with a wreath and red ribbons in the mine at Bernterode?
(a) Adolf Hitler’s.
(b) Dr. Hans Bauer’s.
(c) Heinrich Hoffman’s.
(d) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.

3. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

4. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Hubert and Jan van Eyck.

5. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) September 16, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painting by Raphael was officially listed as missing among the masterpieces stolen from the Czartoryski Collection in Cracow?

2. In Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the author states that the naval bombardment of Omaha Beach began at 5:37 a.m. on what date?

3. 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?

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 was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

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