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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. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?
(a) August 27, 1942.
(b) December 7, 1941.
(c) April 16, 1943.
(d) August 11, 1944.

2. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) King’s College, Cambridge.
(b) Yale University.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Who was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Jacques Jaujard.
(c) Hermann Göring.
(d) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.

4. 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?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Major Ernest DeWald.

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?
(a) Alfred Rosenberg’s.
(b) Hermann Göring’s.
(c) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?

2. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?

3. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?

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. Where was Rose Valland born?

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