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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: “The Mission,” Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The University of Minnesota.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) King’s College, Cambridge.

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

3. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) November, 1944.
(d) October, 1942.

4. 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) Johannes Vermeer.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) John Gettens.
(d) Lamont Moore.

5. 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?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel John Bryan Ward-Perkins.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Lieutenant George Stout.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?

2. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

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

4. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?

5. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?

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