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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. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?
(a) A German spy.
(b) A French spy.
(c) A Russian spy.
(d) A Spanish spy.

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?
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Linz, Austria.
(d) Altaussee, Austria.

3. 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”?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Jacques Jaujard.
(c) George A. Taylor.
(d) Lamont Moore.

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

5. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) January 28, 1945.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) September 7, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?

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

4. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?

5. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

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