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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the director of the French National Museums that had the Louvre's works of art transported to the French countryside before Germany's invasion in 1940?
(a) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) Jacques Jaujard.
(d) Hermann Göring.

4. 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.

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

6. 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) April 16, 1943.
(b) June 26, 1939.
(c) December 20, 1941.
(d) May 27, 1944.

7. It was March of what year when the Germans annexed Austria?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

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

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

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

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

12. Rose Valland became volunteer assistant curator at what museum in 1932?
(a) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(b) The London Museum.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum.
(d) The Suermondt Museum.

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

14. Who was the first Monuments Man to tour the valley of La Gleize, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge?
(a) Bill Lesley.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Lamont Moore.
(d) Sheldon Keck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the letter addressed in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17 from George Stout on October 4, 1944?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Where was George Stout from?

5. What was the name of George Stout’s wife?

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