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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 37-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?
(a) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(b) The London Museum.
(c) The Guggenheim Museum.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum.

2. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
(a) Johannes Vermeer.
(b) Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Albrecht Dürer.

3. Who had issued an executive order stating that important artistic and historical sites were not to be bombed in one of his last acts before leaving Italy, prior to the bombing of the abbey at Monte Cassino?
(a) Major Ernest DeWald.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

4. Cologne had been hit by how many repeated Allied bombing runs when George Stout and Walker Hancock entered the city in March of 1945?
(a) 164.
(b) 211.
(c) 125.
(d) 262.

5. 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?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?

2. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?

3. When was the Madonna of La Gleize carved?

4. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

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

(see the answer key)

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