View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapters 53-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1938.

2. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) “The Rough Riders.”
(b) “The Rolling Stone.”
(c) “The Albatross of the West.”
(d) “The Rock of the Marne.”

3. 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?
(a) March 6, 1944.
(b) October 10, 1944.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) September 16, 1944.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hitler’s Nero Decree issued?

2. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?

3. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

4. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?

5. In addition to the mine, a glass factory was also running at Heilbronn when Harry Ettlinger arrived in September of 1945. What products were being produced at the glass factory?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 275 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample