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

2. 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) Adolf Hitler’s.
(b) William the Conqueror’s.
(c) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.

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

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

5. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) March 6, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) September 16, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?

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

3. Whom was Adolf Hitler visiting in Florence in May of 1938, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?

4. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?

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

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