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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapters 53-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 66.
(b) 45.
(c) 56.
(d) 72.

2. By June 4, 1945, how many repositories had been discovered in the U.S. Seventh Army territory alone?
(a) 59.
(b) 76.
(c) 212.
(d) 175.

3. How many paintings were discovered at the repository in the Altausee mine?
(a) 9,213.
(b) 5,215.
(c) 6,577.
(d) 2,356.

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(b) Adolf Hitler’s.
(c) William the Conqueror’s.
(d) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?

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

3. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?

4. 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?

5. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?

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