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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Breitwieser last when his father got him a job in high school on the Peugeot auto-assembly line?
(a) 3 months.
(b) A week.
(c) Not quite a month.
(d) 2 weeks.

2. In Chapter 7, who painted the piece that drew Breitwieser's attention at a castle?
(a) Heinrich Gotthold Arnold.
(b) Philipp Wilhelm Oeding.
(c) Georg Christoph Martini.
(d) Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich.

3. What did Breitwieser steal on his 24th birthday?
(a) Zurn.
(b) Flegel.
(c) Cranach.
(d) Heiss.

4. From where Breitwieser and Kelinklaus lived, how many countries were less than a day's drive away?
(a) 15.
(b) A half dozen.
(c) 10.
(d) A dozen.

5. When did Semir Zeki, a professor of neuroscience, use MRI scanners to track neural activity when volunteers looked at works of art?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2015.

6. How many people did it take in 1975 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to steal a Rembrandt?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

7. When did Erin Thomopson write her book, Possession?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2017.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2018.

8. What was the going rate for stolen works in Chapter 18?
(a) 5-15% of retail.
(b) 4% of retail.
(c) 3-10% of retail.
(d) 2% of retail.

9. Where did Breitwieser grow up?
(a) Saverne.
(b) Kingersheim.
(c) Guebsiller.
(d) Wittenheim.

10. In 1976 in Avignon, France, how man Picassos were stolen all at once?
(a) 118.
(b) 48.
(c) 76.
(d) 24.

11. In Chapter 6, who gave Breitwieser the four-poster bed in his bedroom?
(a) His maternal grandparents.
(b) His mother.
(c) His paternal grandparents.
(d) His father.

12. Where were Breitwieser and Kleinklaus living in Chapter 2?
(a) Poitiers, France.
(b) Caen, France.
(c) Amiens, France.
(d) Mulhouse, France.

13. In Chapter 15, how many inspectors in Switzerland specialized in art crime?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

14. In Chapter 4, how long was Breitwieser sentenced to stay at a behavioral therapy clinic after a physical struggle with the police?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 6 weeks.

15. Who did Breitwieser live with since he could not afford rent?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) An aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Breitwieser's father leave the family home and take all the furniture, weapons, paintings, watches, and ivory that he inherited?

2. What surveillance footage did Alexandre Von der Muhll examine in Chapter 15?

3. What did Breitwieser and Kleinklaus usually do when they went out with friends?

4. How long after stealing Sibylle of Cleves, did Breitwieser film his mother in the downstairs living room?

5. How much older was framer Christian Meichler than Breitwieser?

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