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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapters 17-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Edward Albee.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

3. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?
(a) March, 1944.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) January, 1943.

4. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

5. What does “MFAA” stand for?
(a) Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives.
(b) Monuments of the Fair Act Association.
(c) Monuments, Final Acts, and Associations.
(d) Metropolitan Financial Account Activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?

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

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?

4. What is the date of the letter from Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower to General Vernon Prichard which opens Part I: “The Mission”?

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?

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