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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. 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.

2. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) Jacques Jaujard.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) George A. Taylor.

3. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?
(a) Schultz Manufacturing.
(b) Shiman Manufacturing.
(c) Schmidt Manufacturing.
(d) Weimar Manufacturing.

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

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) July 17, 1944.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) September 17, 1940.
(d) February 15, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?

2. According to the author, Givet, Belgium was a replacement depot when Harry Ettlinger arrived there. What term did the men call this staging area for replacement troops?

3. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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