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

2. Where was the last known office of the former Paris Kunstschutz leader Count Wolff-Metternich said to be in March of 1945?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Bonn, Germany.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Karlsruhe, Germany.

3. 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) Lamont Moore.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) George A. Taylor.

4. Where was Harry Ettlinger living when he was drafted into the army?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Memphis, Tennessee.

5. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Sheldon Keck’s house.
(b) Rose Valland’s house.
(c) Albrecht Dürer’s house.
(d) Monsieur George’s house.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?

2. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?

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

4. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?

5. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?

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