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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapters 10-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) March 6, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) May 27, 1944.
(d) February 15, 1944.

2. 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) June 26, 1939.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) December 20, 1941.

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

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

5. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(d) Major Tom Howie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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