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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. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) March 6, 1944.
(b) October 10, 1944.
(c) September 16, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

2. Who was the chief of Hitler’s security police and the second-highest-ranking member of the SS in May of 1945?
(a) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(b) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

3. 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?
(a) May 27, 1944.
(b) February 15, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

4. When did the U.S. forces catch up with Hans Frank, the notorious Nazi-governor-general of occupied Poland?
(a) May 2, 1945.
(b) March 20, 1945.
(c) May 4, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

5. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?
(a) 1432.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1326.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose name was on the casket that was adorned with a wreath and red ribbons in the mine at Bernterode?

2. What does “semper fidelis” translate to in English?

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

4. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?

5. How deep was the mineshaft at the mine in Bernterode?

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