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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 was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Lieutenant George Stout.
(c) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(d) Captain Mason Hammond.

2. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) September 16, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) October 10, 1944.

3. 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) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

4. To whom did Rose Valland send a bottle of champagne when the Germans swept down on the Allied lines in the Ardennes, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 23?
(a) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(b) Lieutenant George Stout.
(c) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(d) Captain Robert Posey.

5. To whom is the letter addressed in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17 from George Stout on October 4, 1944?
(a) Rose Valland.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Langdon Warner.
(d) Captain Robert Posey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?

3. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

4. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?

5. What is the title of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21?

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