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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 was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Hermann Göring.

2. How long was the memo that Albert Speer composed on the apocalyptic effects of Hitler’s planned “scorched earth” policy?
(a) 22 pages.
(b) 10 pages.
(c) 4 pages.
(d) 16 pages.

3. 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”?
(a) John Gettens.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Sheldon Keck.
(d) Lamont Moore.

4. When did Frederick William I die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1725.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1640.

5. 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?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 60,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

2. What does “MFAA” stand for?

3. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?

4. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?

(see the answer key)

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