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

2. 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) February 15, 1944.
(b) September 17, 1940.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) August 27, 1942.

3. Where did Walker Hancock locate Weyres, Count Wolff-Metternich’s assistant, in March of 1945?
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Bad Godesberg, Germany.
(c) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(d) Siegen, Germany.

4. When did the Battle of Hürtgen Forest take place?
(a) March to May, 1944.
(b) August to September, 1943.
(c) January to February, 1944.
(d) September to December, 1944.

5. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Heilbronn, Germany.
(c) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(d) Aachen, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?

2. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?

3. Where was Rose Valland born?

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. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

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