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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. 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?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel John Bryan Ward-Perkins.

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

3. Where was Rose Valland born?
(a) Asnières, France.
(b) Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, France.
(c) Bernterode, Germany.
(d) Bad Godesberg, Germany.

4. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?
(a) A German spy.
(b) A French spy.
(c) A Russian spy.
(d) A Spanish spy.

5. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Cleves, Germany.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Karlsruhe, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?

2. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

3. Cologne had been hit by how many repeated Allied bombing runs when George Stout and Walker Hancock entered the city in March of 1945?

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. What German city did the Allied troops take over on Hitler’s birthday on April 20, 1945?

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