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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) June 26, 1939.
(b) December 20, 1941.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) April 16, 1943.

2. To whom did Rose Valland send a bottle of champagne when the Germans swept down on the Allied lines in the Ardennes, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 23?
(a) Captain Robert Posey.
(b) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Lieutenant George Stout.

3. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1900.

4. What does “MFAA” stand for?
(a) Monuments of the Fair Act Association.
(b) Metropolitan Financial Account Activities.
(c) Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives.
(d) Monuments, Final Acts, and Associations.

5. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10, the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions had parachuted how many men behind enemy lines at Utah Beach?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 10,000.

6. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?
(a) May 27, 1944.
(b) March 18, 1945.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) July 17, 1944.

7. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?
(a) Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz.
(b) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(c) Hans Holbein the Elder.
(d) Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

8. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Margie.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

10. Where did George Stout report for naval duty in January of 1943, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Texas.
(c) California.
(d) Ohio.

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) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Trier, Germany.
(c) Siegen, Germany.
(d) Nuremberg, Germany.

12. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?
(a) 25.
(b) 45.
(c) 32.
(d) 37.

13. Who wrote the chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera?
(a) Langdon Warner.
(b) Archibald MacLeish.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

14. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?
(a) 1645.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1715.
(d) 1802.

15. What Austrian city did Hitler intend to redevelop into his own version of Florence, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Vienna, Austria.
(c) Linz, Austria.
(d) Altaussee, Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom was Adolf Hitler visiting in Florence in May of 1938, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?

2. 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?

3. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?

4. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

5. Shrivenham is described in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8 as a small rural village about halfway between London and what city?

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