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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21, the official role of the ERR was to provide material for whose “scholarly” institutes?
(a) Alfred Rosenberg’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) Hermann Göring’s.
(d) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.

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

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?
(a) Linz, Austria.
(b) Altaussee, Austria.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Vienna, Austria.

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

6. 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) October, 1942.
(b) January, 1943.
(c) October, 1944.
(d) March, 1944.

7. 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 Colonel John Bryan Ward-Perkins.
(b) Lieutenant George Stout.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Colonel George A. Taylor.

8. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?
(a) 1939-1945.
(b) 1936-1942.
(c) 1931-1945.
(d) 1933-1945.

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

10. 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) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 21.

11. When did Walker Hancock arrive in La Gleize, Belgium, following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) September, 1944.
(b) November, 1944.
(c) February, 1945.
(d) January, 1943.

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

13. When was the Ghent Altarpiece completed?
(a) 1562.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1326.
(d) 1432.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Harry Ettlinger living when he was drafted into the army?

2. 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?

3. 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”?

4. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?

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

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