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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. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?
(a) 1326.
(b) 1562.
(c) 1432.
(d) 1742.

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

3. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?
(a) December 20, 1941.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) April 16, 1943.
(d) June 6, 1944.

4. The concentration camp at Buchenwald was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on what date?
(a) March 20, 1945.
(b) September 7, 1944.
(c) March 18, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

5. On what date did the German forces surrender in Italy?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) March 20, 1945.
(c) April 12, 1945.
(d) May 2, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

2. How old did Adolf Hitler turn on April 20, 1945?

3. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?

4. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?

5. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?

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