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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. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?
(a) 43.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.

2. What German city did the Allied troops take over on Hitler’s birthday on April 20, 1945?
(a) Siegen.
(b) Nuremberg.
(c) Heilbronn.
(d) Trier.

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Fox and Hound.
(b) Cambridge Literary Journal.
(c) National Lampoon.
(d) Hound and Horn.

4. In Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the author states that the naval bombardment of Omaha Beach began at 5:37 a.m. on what date?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) February 15, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

5. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) September 7, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?

2. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?

3. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

4. When was the Dachau concentration camp opened?

5. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?

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