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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 was the “guide” that led George Stout and the others into Siegen, Germany on April 2, 1945?
(a) Lamont Moore.
(b) Vicar Stephany.
(c) Monsieur George.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber.

2. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Bill Lesley.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) Sheldon Keck.

3. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) William the Conqueror’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

4. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?
(a) September 1-12, 1943.
(b) October 2-21, 1944.
(c) March 12-20, 1944.
(d) December 12-18, 1944.

5. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) Canterbury.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Bristol.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?

3. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?

4. The concentration camp at Buchenwald was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on what date?

5. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?

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