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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: “The Void,” Chapters 44-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German city did the Allied troops take over on Hitler’s birthday on April 20, 1945?
(a) Heilbronn.
(b) Siegen.
(c) Trier.
(d) Nuremberg.

2. Who established and opened the Dachau concentration camp?
(a) Hermann Göring.
(b) Heinrich Hoffman.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Heinrich Himmler.

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

4. The First Reich refers to what empire?
(a) The Holy Roman Empire.
(b) The Greek Empire.
(c) The Nazi Empire.
(d) The Egyptian Empire.

5. What painting by Raphael was officially listed as missing among the masterpieces stolen from the Czartoryski Collection in Cracow?
(a) Girl with a Pearl Earring.
(b) Portrait of a Young Man.
(c) Madonna on a Blanket.
(d) Child in the Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?

2. What was featured on the American flag banners that appeared in house windows if someone in that house had died in action?

3. On what date did the Führer give the ERR the authorization to “search lodges, libraries and archives in the occupied territories of the west for material valuable to Germany, and to safeguard the latter through the Gestapo”?

4. On what date did the Monuments Men arrive at the Third Army base in Trier, Germany, to assess the damage there after the fighting ended?

5. Who painted St. Paul in Prison?

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