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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. Who was the associate director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum that developed a presentation which examined the imminent danger of the loss or destruction of valuable art across Europe with the spread of Nazi power, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) Paul Sachs.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) Rose Valland.

2. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(b) Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
(c) Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz.
(d) Hans Holbein the Elder.

3. Where was George Stout from?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Winterset, Iowa.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Cleveland, Mississippi.

4. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?
(a) The French.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The British.

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”?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) December 20, 1941.
(d) June 26, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?

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

5. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?

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