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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 Austrian city did Hitler intend to redevelop into his own version of Florence, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Altaussee, Austria.
(c) Linz, Austria.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

2. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(b) Hans Holbein the Elder.
(c) Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz.
(d) Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

3. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) October 10, 1944.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) September 16, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

4. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1850.

5. How many miles from Salzberg is the Pötschen Pass located?
(a) 44.
(b) 32.
(c) 10.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

2. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?

3. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?

4. Who had issued an executive order stating that important artistic and historical sites were not to be bombed in one of his last acts before leaving Italy, prior to the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino?

5. Where did Walker Hancock locate Weyres, Count Wolff-Metternich’s assistant, in March of 1945?

(see the answer key)

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