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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: “The Mission,” Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) March 18, 1945.

2. Who is cited with the quotation describing the scientific breakthroughs he made with George Stout between 1927 and 1932 in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) John Gettens.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Lamont Moore.

3. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 66.
(b) 72.
(c) 56.
(d) 45.

4. 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) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Mason Hammond.
(c) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(d) Lieutenant George Stout.

5. 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) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?

2. What Austrian city did Hitler intend to redevelop into his own version of Florence, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?

3. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?

4. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

5. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

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