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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 museum in Aachen had Captain Walter Hancock spent the past month at as he attempted to determine where the works of art had been moved, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) The Suermondt Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2. On what date did George Stout breathe “the first warm air of a British spring,” according to the author in the beginning of Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) March 18, 1945.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) March 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) June 6, 1944.
(c) October 10, 1944.
(d) September 16, 1944.

4. 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) Captain Mason Hammond.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Lieutenant George Stout.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

5. When was the Madonna of La Gleize carved?
(a) The 1300s.
(b) The 1200s.
(c) The 1500s.
(d) The 1400s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Battle of Hürtgen Forest take place?

2. When was Rose Valland born?

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

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

5. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?

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