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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapters 51-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first of the Monuments Men to visit the abbey at Monte Cassino to inspect the ruins?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Major Ernest DeWald.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.

2. When was the Dachau concentration camp opened?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1935.

3. 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”?
(a) Lamont Moore.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) John Gettens.
(d) Sheldon Keck.

4. Where was the last known office of the former Paris Kunstschutz leader Count Wolff-Metternich said to be in March of 1945?
(a) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Siegen, Germany.
(d) Bonn, Germany.

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?

2. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?

3. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?

4. What Austrian city did Hitler intend to redevelop into his own version of Florence, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?

5. What is the date of the letter from Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower to General Vernon Prichard which opens Part I: “The Mission”?

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