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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapters 51-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Monuments Man once commented that Hitler “wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And if people had just read it carefully, every single thing that’s happened was already predicted… the whole Jewish situation is there in clear writing in ink”?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) S. Lane Faison, Jr.
(c) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(d) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.

3. When did Frederick William I die?
(a) 1725.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1640.
(d) 1740.

4. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) October 10, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) September 16, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?

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

3. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?

4. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

5. On what date did James Rorimer first arrive at the southern German town of Heilbronn?

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