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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapters 10-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) Leeds.

2. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Lieutenant George Stout.
(c) Captain Mason Hammond.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

3. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?
(a) 13.
(b) 3.
(c) 21.
(d) 5.

4. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. 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) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Major Tom Howie.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?

2. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?

3. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?

4. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

5. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?

(see the answer key)

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