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

2. Where did George Stout report for naval duty in January of 1943, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Texas.
(c) California.
(d) Ohio.

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Cambridge Literary Journal.
(b) Fox and Hound.
(c) Hound and Horn.
(d) National Lampoon.

4. On what date did the Führer give the ERR the authorization to “search lodges, libraries and archives in the occupied territories of the west for material valuable to Germany, and to safeguard the latter through the Gestapo”?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) September 17, 1940.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) February 15, 1944.

5. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?
(a) November, 1944.
(b) October, 1942.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) October, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “LST” stand for?

2. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?

3. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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