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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: “Germany,” Chapters 30-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?
(a) Reiteration.
(b) Conservation.
(c) Adulteration.
(d) Alteration.

2. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?
(a) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Major Tom Howie.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

3. Where was George Stout from?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(c) Winterset, Iowa.
(d) St. Louis, Missouri.

4. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) September, 1943.
(b) October, 1942.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) November, 1944.

5. On what date did the Führer give the ERR the authorization to “search lodges, libraries and archives in the occupied territories of the west for material valuable to Germany, and to safeguard the latter through the Gestapo”?
(a) February 15, 1944.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) September 17, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?

2. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?

3. Who was the “guide” that led George Stout and the others into Siegen, Germany on April 2, 1945?

4. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?

5. Who was the first of the Monuments Men to visit the abbey at Monte Cassino to inspect the ruins?

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