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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. What was featured on the American flag banners that appeared in house windows if someone in that house had died in action?
(a) A blue ribbon.
(b) A pink ribbon.
(c) A red star.
(d) A gold star.

2. 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?
(a) Hermann Göring.
(b) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber.

3. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?
(a) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

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

5. What is referred to in Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 37 as “the great lost civilization of Africa”?
(a) Nairobi.
(b) Mesopotamia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Timbuktu.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?

2. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?

3. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

4. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

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

(see the answer key)

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