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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. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?
(a) Les Miserables.
(b) The Sound of Music.
(c) Cats.
(d) Cabaret.

2. 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) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Captain Walter Huchthause.

3. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Lexington, Kentucky.
(d) San Diego, California.

4. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. 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?
(a) Nuremberg, Germany.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Siegen, Germany.
(d) Trier, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?

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”?

3. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?

4. 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?

5. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?

(see the answer key)

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