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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 44-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
(a) Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Rembrandt.

2. According to the author, Givet, Belgium was a replacement depot when Harry Ettlinger arrived there. What term did the men call this staging area for replacement troops?
(a) A “lion’s gate.”
(b) A “repple depple.”
(c) A “timble bimble.”
(d) A “cross-depot.”

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

4. 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) William the Conqueror’s.
(b) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

5. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Last Significant Territory.
(b) Landing Ship, Tanks.
(c) Lost Station Tank.
(d) Last Standing Table.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

2. When did Frederick William I die?

3. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?

4. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?

5. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?

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