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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 Suermondt Museum.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(c) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

2. 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?
(a) October, 1942.
(b) March, 1944.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) October, 1944.

3. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) November, 1944.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) February, 1945.
(d) September, 1944.

4. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

5. What German term from Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 38 refers to the downfall of the gods?
(a) Pötschen.
(b) Hürtgen.
(c) Pöchmüller.
(d) Götterdämmerung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the general director of the Altaussee mining operations in April of 1945?

2. Where was the last known office of the former Paris Kunstschutz leader Count Wolff-Metternich said to be in March of 1945?

3. Who was the first of the Monuments Men to visit the abbey at Monte Cassino to inspect the ruins?

4. Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

5. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?

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