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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. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) September 16, 1944.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

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”?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Mason Hammond.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

3. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) November, 1944.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) September, 1944.
(d) February, 1945.

4. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?
(a) 32.
(b) 25.
(c) 45.
(d) 37.

5. When was the Madonna of La Gleize carved?
(a) The 1400s.
(b) The 1300s.
(c) The 1500s.
(d) The 1200s.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?

2. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?

3. How long was the memo that Albert Speer composed on the apocalyptic effects of Hitler’s planned “scorched earth” policy?

4. On what date did Albert Speer receive word that four officers had been executed on Hitler’s orders because they had not blown up the bridge at Remagen?

5. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?

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