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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The view from La Gleize, Belgium, overlooks what forest?
(a) The Ardennes Forest.
(b) The Crooked Forest.
(c) North Sentinel Island Forest.
(d) The Trillemarka – Rollagsfjell Forest.

2. 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?
(a) 3.
(b) 13.
(c) 21.
(d) 5.

3. To whom is the letter addressed in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17 from George Stout on October 4, 1944?
(a) Rose Valland.
(b) Langdon Warner.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Captain Robert Posey.

4. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?
(a) Johannes Vermeer.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
(d) Albrecht Dürer.

5. What was featured on the American flag banners that appeared in house windows if someone in that house had died in action?
(a) A red star.
(b) A blue ribbon.
(c) A pink ribbon.
(d) A gold star.

6. 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) Lamont Moore.
(c) Sheldon Keck.
(d) Jacques Jaujard.

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

8. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler was director of what museum prior to the war?
(a) The London Museum.
(b) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

9. On what date did the Führer give the ERR the authorization to “search lodges, libraries and archives in the occupied territories of the west for material valuable to Germany, and to safeguard the latter through the Gestapo”?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) September 17, 1940.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) February 15, 1944.

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) Texas.
(b) Maryland.
(c) California.
(d) Ohio.

11. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(d) Captain Mason Hammond.

12. 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) John Gettens.
(b) Lamont Moore.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Sheldon Keck.

13. Who is described in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 26 as “a curator at the National Gallery who had helped evacuate its prized works to the Biltmore Estate in 1941”?
(a) Jacques Jaujard.
(b) George A. Taylor.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Lamont Moore.

14. 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?
(a) Major Ernest DeWald.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Captain Walter Huchthause.

15. According to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5, who held Egypt against the Nazis?
(a) The French.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The British.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

3. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?

4. When did the defeat of the German-Italian forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein take place?

5. For what factory did Harry Ettlinger work to support his family while he was still in high school?

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