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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 44-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Walker Hancock’s wife?
(a) Mattie.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Saima.
(d) Elizabeth.

2. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?
(a) The Sound of Music.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) Cabaret.
(d) Cats.

3. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) October 10, 1944.
(b) September 16, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

4. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?
(a) Langdon Warner.
(b) Archibald MacLeish.
(c) Christopher Isherwood.
(d) Lamont Moore.

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) Bristol.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Canterbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?

2. What was featured on the American flag banners that appeared in house windows if someone in that house had died in action?

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

4. Who was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?

5. When did the U.S. forces catch up with Hans Frank, the notorious Nazi-governor-general of occupied Poland?

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