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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Battle of Aachen take place?
(a) September 1-12, 1943.
(b) December 12-18, 1944.
(c) March 12-20, 1944.
(d) October 2-21, 1944.

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

3. 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 red star.
(d) A gold star.

4. On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor and catapult the U.S. into World War II?
(a) June 26, 1939.
(b) May 27, 1944.
(c) December 7, 1941.
(d) August 27, 1942.

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

6. 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) Vienna, Austria.
(c) Altaussee, Austria.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

7. Where was Harry Ettlinger living when he was drafted into the army?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Memphis, Tennessee.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

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

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) Captain Robert Posey.
(d) Lieutenant George Stout.

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

11. In what year did a Jewish merchant named Seligmann establish himself in Karlsruhe, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1625.
(d) 1725.

12. Whom was Adolf Hitler visiting in Florence in May of 1938, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 2?
(a) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Heinrich Hoffman.
(d) Hermann Göring.

13. Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5 describes events in North Africa at what time?
(a) October, 1944.
(b) June, 1939.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) October, 1942.

14. The chronicle of Nazi Berlin titled I Am a Camera eventually became the basis for what musical?
(a) Cats.
(b) Cabaret.
(c) The Sound of Music.
(d) Les Miserables.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of Rosenberg’s transmittal letter to Hitler accompanying albums of photographs of works of art stolen for the Führermuseum in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 7?

2. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

3. Who was friends with Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein and the Librarian of Congress in 1944?

4. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?

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

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