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

2. To whom is the letter addressed in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17 from George Stout on October 4, 1944?
(a) Langdon Warner.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Captain Robert Posey.
(d) Rose Valland.

3. 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) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) George A. Taylor.
(d) Lamont Moore.

4. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) February 15, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) March 18, 1945.

5. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) National Lampoon.
(b) Fox and Hound.
(c) Cambridge Literary Journal.
(d) Hound and Horn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had issued an executive order stating that important artistic and historical sites were not to be bombed in one of his last acts before leaving Italy, prior to the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino?

2. What was the name of Walker Hancock’s wife?

3. Out of 90,000 residents of Trier, Germany, about how many remained when the Monuments Men came to the city to assess the damage from the battles there?

4. 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?

5. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?

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