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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. Who was the first of the Monuments Men to visit the abbey at Monte Cassino to inspect the ruins?
(a) Major Ernest DeWald.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Captain Walter Huchthause.

2. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?
(a) 1931-1945.
(b) 1939-1945.
(c) 1936-1942.
(d) 1933-1945.

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

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?
(a) March, 1944.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) October, 1942.

5. Before World War II, what had been the population of Cologne, Germany?
(a) Almost 800,000.
(b) Almost 100,000.
(c) Almost 300,000.
(d) Almost 250,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albrecht Dürer born?

2. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?

3. Who was the soldier that smashed the artwork in the home of a former Nazi official in March of 1945 because he was enraged at the Red Cross care packages found there?

4. To whom is the letter addressed in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17 from George Stout on October 4, 1944?

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

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