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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. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) March 18, 1945.
(c) September 7, 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) December 20, 1941.
(c) June 26, 1939.
(d) August 27, 1942.

3. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1937.

4. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1850.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

2. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

3. 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?

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

5. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?

(see the answer key)

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