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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 37-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Johannes Vermeer.

2. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) George A. Taylor.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Lamont Moore.

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

4. Who was the general director of the Altaussee mining operations in April of 1945?
(a) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(b) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(c) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber.

5. What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s personal assistant?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Martin Bormann.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Monsieur George.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?

2. 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”?

3. When Stout and Hancock entered Cologne in March of 1945, Hancock assessed that there were less than how many citizens still left in the city?

4. On what date did Albert Speer receive word that four officers had been executed on Hitler’s orders because they had not blown up the bridge at Remagen?

5. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?

(see the answer key)

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