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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) October, 1942.
(c) March, 1944.
(d) October, 1944.

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

3. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) San Diego, California.
(d) Lexington, Kentucky.

4. 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) 13.
(b) 21.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. What literary review had Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein founded while attending Harvard?
(a) Hound and Horn.
(b) Fox and Hound.
(c) National Lampoon.
(d) Cambridge Literary Journal.

6. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?
(a) A Russian spy.
(b) A Spanish spy.
(c) A German spy.
(d) A French spy.

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

8. What archeological colleague of Colonel Wheeler’s “happened to be serving as an artillery captain in a unit near Leptis Magna,” according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel John Bryan Ward-Perkins.
(d) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.

9. 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) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Lieutenant George Stout.
(d) Captain Robert Posey.

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

11. 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?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

12. On what date did George Stout breathe “the first warm air of a British spring,” according to the author in the beginning of Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) April 16, 1943.
(c) August 27, 1942.
(d) March 6, 1944.

13. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

14. When is the letter dated that is from James Rorimer to his wife Katherine in the opening of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?
(a) June 6, 1944.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) February 15, 1944.
(d) March 6, 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the 29th Infantry Division begin an all-out assault on the German 352nd Division at Saint-Lô in a surprise attack?

2. Around what year did Seligmann’s descendants choose the surname Ettlinger?

3. Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 22 is titled “The Bulge” and takes place on the Western Front during what dates?

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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