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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. 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) Major Ernest DeWald.
(d) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

3. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Last Standing Table.
(b) Last Significant Territory.
(c) Lost Station Tank.
(d) Landing Ship, Tanks.

4. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 45.
(b) 56.
(c) 72.
(d) 66.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did George Stout report for naval duty in January of 1943, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?

2. 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?

3. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?

4. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?

5. Where was George Stout from?

(see the answer key)

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