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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. 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?
(a) Victory gardens.
(b) Cultivar gardens.
(c) Peacetime gardens.
(d) Spanish gardens.

2. 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?
(a) September 16, 1944.
(b) October 10, 1944.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

3. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?
(a) March 12-20, 1944.
(b) December 12-18, 1944.
(c) October 2-21, 1944.
(d) September 1-12, 1943.

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

5. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) December 20, 1941.
(c) July 17, 1944.
(d) April 16, 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

2. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?

3. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?

4. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?

5. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?

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