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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. 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) 3,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 10,000.

2. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) October, 1942.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) September, 1943.
(d) November, 1944.

3. 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) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Captain Mason Hammond.
(d) Lieutenant George Stout.

4. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) The University of Minnesota.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) King’s College, Cambridge.
(d) Yale University.

5. Where was George Stout from?
(a) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Winterset, Iowa.
(d) St. Louis, Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harry Ettlinger living when he was drafted into the army?

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

3. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

4. When was Rose Valland born?

5. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?

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