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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: “Germany,” Chapters 24-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Lamont Moore.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) John Gettens.
(d) Johannes Vermeer.

2. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1935.

3. What was the name of Walker Hancock’s wife?
(a) Mattie.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Saima.

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

5. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) August 27, 1942.
(b) January 28, 1945.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) July 17, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

3. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?

4. What does “LST” stand for?

5. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?

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