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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. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?
(a) Schmidt Manufacturing.
(b) Schultz Manufacturing.
(c) Weimar Manufacturing.
(d) Shiman Manufacturing.

2. According to the author, Givet, Belgium was a replacement depot when Harry Ettlinger arrived there. What term did the men call this staging area for replacement troops?
(a) A “repple depple.”
(b) A “cross-depot.”
(c) A “timble bimble.”
(d) A “lion’s gate.”

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

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

5. Out of 90,000 residents of Trier, Germany, about how many remained when the Monuments Men came to the city to assess the damage from the battles there?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

2. 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?

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?

4. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

5. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?

(see the answer key)

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