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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. Who received the French Legion of Honor on November 4, 1945?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walker Hancock.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Private First Class Richard Courtney.

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

3. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) King’s College, Cambridge.
(b) The University of Minnesota.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

4. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?
(a) September 7, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) July 17, 1944.

5. What name refers to vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort?
(a) Cultivar gardens.
(b) Victory gardens.
(c) Peacetime gardens.
(d) Spanish gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?

2. For what publication did Lincoln Kirstein write an article in 1945 that stated of the Altausee mine that “so many witnesses told so many stories that the more information we accumulated the less truth it seemed to contain”?

3. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

4. What does “MFAA” stand for?

5. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?

(see the answer key)

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