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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. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?
(a) Alteration.
(b) Reiteration.
(c) Adulteration.
(d) Conservation.

2. 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) May 27, 1944.
(c) February 15, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

3. 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) September 16, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

4. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Lost Station Tank.
(b) Last Standing Table.
(c) Last Significant Territory.
(d) Landing Ship, Tanks.

5. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) April 16, 1943.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) December 20, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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