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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 was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(d) Major General John “Iron Mike” O’Daniel.

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

3. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1540.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1623.

4. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) “The Rough Riders.”
(b) “The Rock of the Marne.”
(c) “The Rolling Stone.”
(d) “The Albatross of the West.”

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) George A. Taylor.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Lamont Moore.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does “semper fidelis” translate to in English?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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