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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is cited with the quotation describing the scientific breakthroughs he made with George Stout between 1927 and 1932 in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) Lamont Moore.
(c) John Gettens.
(d) Johannes Vermeer.

3. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?
(a) October, 1944.
(b) October, 1942.
(c) November, 1944.
(d) January, 1943.

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

5. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?
(a) George A. Taylor.
(b) Sheldon Keck.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Lamont Moore.

6. What is the date of the letter from Supreme Commander General Dwight David Eisenhower to General Vernon Prichard which opens Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) June 26, 1939.
(c) December 20, 1941.
(d) August 27, 1942.

7. When was Rose Valland born?
(a) November 1, 1898.
(b) September 12, 1901.
(c) March 15, 1899.
(d) July 7, 1907.

8. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) December 20, 1941.
(b) June 26, 1939.
(c) May 27, 1944.
(d) April 16, 1943.

9. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) August 27, 1942.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) January 28, 1945.

10. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?
(a) September 16, 1944.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) October 10, 1944.

11. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) Trier, Germany.
(b) Siegen, Germany.
(c) Nuremberg, Germany.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

12. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Canterbury.

13. When was James Rorimer assigned to Paris, where he was to protect fifty-two official monuments, assist hundreds of Nazi looting victims, and track down many hundreds of missing public monuments?
(a) January, 1943.
(b) March, 1944.
(c) October, 1942.
(d) October, 1944.

14. Where was Rose Valland born?
(a) Bad Godesberg, Germany.
(b) Asnières, France.
(c) Bernterode, Germany.
(d) Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, France.

15. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?
(a) Conservation.
(b) Alteration.
(c) Adulteration.
(d) Reiteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?

2. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

3. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?

4. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

5. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

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