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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. How many gallons of water were leaked into the Heilbronn mine every day from the Neckar River?
(a) 500.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Archibald MacLeish.
(c) Langdon Warner.
(d) Lamont Moore.

3. How deep was the mineshaft at the mine in Bernterode?
(a) 1,200 feet deep.
(b) 1,800 feet deep.
(c) 430 feet deep.
(d) 850 feet deep.

4. What was the name of Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather who fled Germany in 1939?
(a) Max Liebermann.
(b) Opa Oppenheimer.
(c) Martin Kippenberger.
(d) Jörg Immendorff.

5. 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) 4 pages.
(d) 10 pages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted The Astronomer?

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. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

4. What Monuments Man once commented that Hitler “wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And if people had just read it carefully, every single thing that’s happened was already predicted… the whole Jewish situation is there in clear writing in ink”?

5. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?

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