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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded the city of Karlsruhe, Germany?
(a) Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz.
(b) Hans Holbein the Elder.
(c) Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
(d) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.

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

3. When was the city of Karlsruhe, Germany, established?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1715.
(d) 1645.

4. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Edward Albee.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

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

6. 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) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Lieutenant George Stout.
(d) Captain Mason Hammond.

7. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) December 20, 1941.
(b) April 16, 1943.
(c) May 27, 1944.
(d) June 26, 1939.

8. In what year was Harry Ettlinger “banned from the local sports association,” according to the author in Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1933.

9. What is the title of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21?
(a) “Cleves, Germany.”
(b) “Going West.”
(c) “The Train.”
(d) “The Cellar.”

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

11. 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) Emmerich Pöchmüller’s.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(d) Hermann Göring’s.

12. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?
(a) 25.
(b) 32.
(c) 45.
(d) 37.

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

14. When did the first of the Monuments Men arrive in Monte Cassino to inspect the damage there?
(a) May 27, 1944.
(b) August 27, 1942.
(c) March 18, 1945.
(d) July 17, 1944.

15. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Lost Station Tank.
(b) Last Significant Territory.
(c) Last Standing Table.
(d) Landing Ship, Tanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. The First Reich refers to what empire?

4. During what years was Franklin D. Roosevelt in office as President of the U.S.?

5. 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?

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