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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. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Lexington, Kentucky.
(c) Macon, Georgia.
(d) San Diego, California.

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

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

4. 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) March 6, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) May 27, 1944.
(d) February 15, 1944.

5. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Edward Albee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?

2. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?

3. When was the Dachau concentration camp opened?

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

5. 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?

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