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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. Where was Harry Ettlinger living when he was drafted into the army?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

2. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1725.
(b) 1625.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1811.

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

4. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Edward Albee.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

5. Who was the associate director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum that developed a presentation which examined the imminent danger of the loss or destruction of valuable art across Europe with the spread of Nazi power, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) Paul Sachs.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) Rose Valland.
(d) Lamont Moore.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?

2. When is the letter dated that is from James Rorimer to his wife Katherine in the opening of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

3. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?

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”?

5. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?

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