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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. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?
(a) The Crooked Forest.
(b) The Trillemarka – Rollagsfjell Forest.
(c) The Ardennes Forest.
(d) North Sentinel Island Forest.

2. 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?
(a) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(c) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

3. 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.

4. Rose Valland became volunteer assistant curator at what museum in 1932?
(a) The Suermondt Museum.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum.
(c) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(d) The London Museum.

5. Where was Ronald Balfour a historian prior to his service, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) King’s College, Cambridge.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the author, Givet, Belgium was a replacement depot when Harry Ettlinger arrived there. What term did the men call this staging area for replacement troops?

3. Albert Speer was what official party member number of the Nazi Party?

4. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?

5. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?

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