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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 museum in Aachen had Captain Walter Hancock spent the past month at as he attempted to determine where the works of art had been moved, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(d) The Suermondt Museum.

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

3. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?
(a) May 27, 1944.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) March 18, 1945.
(d) August 27, 1942.

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?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) September 17, 1940.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) July 17, 1944.

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?
(a) Alfred Rosenberg’s.
(b) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(d) Hermann Göring’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?

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. Who was the soldier that smashed the artwork in the home of a former Nazi official in March of 1945 because he was enraged at the Red Cross care packages found there?

4. When was Rose Valland born?

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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