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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapters 10-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5 describes events in North Africa at what time?
(a) October, 1942.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) June, 1939.
(d) October, 1944.

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

3. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) July 17, 1944.

4. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?
(a) Hans Holbein the Elder.
(b) Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
(c) Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz.
(d) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.

5. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?
(a) August 27, 1942.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) June 26, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does “MFAA” stand for?

3. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?

4. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

5. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

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