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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. Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5 describes events in North Africa at what time?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) October, 1944.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) June, 1939.

2. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(b) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(c) William the Conqueror’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

3. When is the letter dated that is from James Rorimer to his wife Katherine in the opening of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?
(a) March 6, 1944.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) February 15, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

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?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1725.

5. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?

2. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

3. How many of the Monuments Men were still in their twenties, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

4. Whom was Adolf Hitler visiting in Florence in May of 1938, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?

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

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