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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. In July/August of 1945, a building at Marburg University was requisitioned for the collection of archives of the Monuments Men. Who was placed in charge of this facility?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.

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

3. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Fox and Hound.
(b) National Lampoon.
(c) Cambridge Literary Journal.
(d) Hound and Horn.

4. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?
(a) The Trillemarka – Rollagsfjell Forest.
(b) The Ardennes Forest.
(c) The Crooked Forest.
(d) North Sentinel Island Forest.

5. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?
(a) Jacques Jaujard.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) George A. Taylor.
(d) Lamont Moore.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?

2. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?

3. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?

4. When was Rose Valland born?

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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