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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) Adolf Hitler’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) William the Conqueror’s.
(d) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.

2. One of the items that was returned from the repositories was the famous stained-glass windows of what cathedral, which the French considered a national treasure?
(a) St. Stephen's Cathedral.
(b) The Burgos Cathedral.
(c) The Reims Cathedral.
(d) The Strasbourg Cathedral.

3. What Monuments Man wrote of the discovery of the Bruges Madonna, “the light of our lamps played over the soft folds of the Madonna’s robe, the delicate modeling of her face. Her grave eyes looked down, seemed only half aware of the sturdy Child nestling close against her, one hand firmly held in hers”?
(a) Archibald MacLeish.
(b) Langdon Warner.
(c) Thomas Carr Howe, Jr.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

4. What painting by Raphael was officially listed as missing among the masterpieces stolen from the Czartoryski Collection in Cracow?
(a) Girl with a Pearl Earring.
(b) Portrait of a Young Man.
(c) Child in the Forest.
(d) Madonna on a Blanket.

5. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “LST” stand for?

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

3. When Stout and Hancock entered Cologne in March of 1945, Hancock assessed that there were less than how many citizens still left in the city?

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

5. 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”?

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