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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. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) Adolf Hitler’s.
(d) William the Conqueror’s.

2. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Alice.
(d) Margaret.

3. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) September 7, 1944.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) January 28, 1945.

4. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Monsieur George’s house.
(b) Albrecht Dürer’s house.
(c) Rose Valland’s house.
(d) Sheldon Keck’s house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the valley along the border between France and Germany that Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein were traveling along in March of 1945, according to the author in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 32?

2. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?

3. 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?

4. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?

5. The basis of the English word “salary” derives from what substance once used as money?

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