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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: “Germany,” Chapters 30-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?
(a) Langdon Warner.
(b) Lamont Moore.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

2. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) Bill Lesley.
(c) Rose Valland.
(d) Lamont Moore.

3. After the Allied victory at Saint-Lô, who was the former schoolteacher and popular officer whose body was wrapped in an American flag and hoisted atop the ruins of the church of Sainte-Croix?
(a) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Major Tom Howie.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

4. 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) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) George A. Taylor.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Lamont Moore.

5. To whom did Rose Valland send a bottle of champagne when the Germans swept down on the Allied lines in the Ardennes, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 23?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Captain Robert Posey.
(d) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?

2. Who was the soldier that smashed the artwork in the home of a former Nazi official in March of 1945 because he was enraged at the Red Cross care packages found there?

3. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?

4. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?

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?

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