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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. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(d) Major Tom Howie.

2. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?
(a) October, 1942.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) November, 1944.

3. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) September 7, 1944.
(c) April 16, 1943.
(d) February 15, 1944.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?

2. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?

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?

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?

5. Who is cited with the quotation describing the scientific breakthroughs he made with George Stout between 1927 and 1932 in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

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