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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was George Stout from?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Winterset, Iowa.

2. 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) May 27, 1944.
(b) June 6, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) February 15, 1944.

3. On what date was Harry Ettlinger’s nineteenth birthday?
(a) January 28, 1945.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) August 27, 1942.

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

5. What name refers to vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort?
(a) Cultivar gardens.
(b) Victory gardens.
(c) Spanish gardens.
(d) Peacetime gardens.

6. 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?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) December 20, 1941.

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

8. The First Reich refers to what empire?
(a) The Holy Roman Empire.
(b) The Egyptian Empire.
(c) The Nazi Empire.
(d) The Greek Empire.

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

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

11. 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) August 27, 1942.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) February 15, 1944.
(d) September 17, 1940.

12. When did the Battle of Hürtgen Forest take place?
(a) September to December, 1944.
(b) March to May, 1944.
(c) January to February, 1944.
(d) August to September, 1943.

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

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

15. The Madonna of La Gleize was moved to the cellar of whose house following the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Sheldon Keck’s house.
(b) Albrecht Dürer’s house.
(c) Monsieur George’s house.
(d) Rose Valland’s house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted the Ghent Altarpiece?

2. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?

3. Who was assigned by Stout to assist the newest U.S. Ninth Army Monuments officer, Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, in December of 1944?

4. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?

5. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?

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