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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: “Germany,” Chapters 24-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?
(a) Shiman Manufacturing.
(b) Weimar Manufacturing.
(c) Schultz Manufacturing.
(d) Schmidt Manufacturing.

2. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?
(a) Lamont Moore.
(b) Archibald MacLeish.
(c) Christopher Isherwood.
(d) Langdon Warner.

3. The First Reich refers to what empire?
(a) The Egyptian Empire.
(b) The Holy Roman Empire.
(c) The Nazi Empire.
(d) The Greek Empire.

4. 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”?
(a) John Gettens.
(b) Lamont Moore.
(c) Sheldon Keck.
(d) Johannes Vermeer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?

2. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?

3. 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?

4. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?

5. Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 22 is titled “The Bulge” and takes place on the Western Front during what dates?

(see the answer key)

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