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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. How long was the memo that Albert Speer composed on the apocalyptic effects of Hitler’s planned “scorched earth” policy?
(a) 16 pages.
(b) 22 pages.
(c) 10 pages.
(d) 4 pages.

2. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The British.
(c) The French.
(d) The Spanish.

3. Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5 describes events in North Africa at what time?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) June, 1939.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) October, 1944.

4. What was the name of the Heilbronn mine’s vice director in April of 1945?
(a) Dr. Hans Bauer.
(b) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

5. Who had issued an executive order stating that important artistic and historical sites were not to be bombed in one of his last acts before leaving Italy, prior to the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino?
(a) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) Major Ernest DeWald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

2. Who is cited with the quotation describing the scientific breakthroughs he made with George Stout between 1927 and 1932 in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

3. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?

4. What does “MFAA” stand for?

5. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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