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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Allied forces bomb Monte Cassino, Italy and destroy the abbey there?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) February 15, 1944.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) March 18, 1945.

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

4. 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) March, 1944.
(d) October, 1944.

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

6. According to the author in Chapter 11 of Part II: “Northern Europe,” the Hotel de Ville library which was destroyed contained the whose charter?
(a) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber’s.
(c) William the Conqueror’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

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

8. 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) February 15, 1944.
(c) September 17, 1940.
(d) July 17, 1944.

9. Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 22 is titled “The Bulge” and takes place on the Western Front during what dates?
(a) December 16 and 17, 1944.
(b) April 2 and 3, 1943.
(c) March 12 and 13, 1944.
(d) June 12 and 13, 1944.

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

11. Who was the associate director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum that developed a presentation which examined the imminent danger of the loss or destruction of valuable art across Europe with the spread of Nazi power, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?
(a) Sheldon Keck.
(b) Lamont Moore.
(c) Rose Valland.
(d) Paul Sachs.

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

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

14. Who was the first of the Monuments Men to visit the abbey at Monte Cassino to inspect the ruins?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(c) Major Ernest DeWald.
(d) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Captain Walter Hancock arrive in Aachen, Germany, to assess the situation there, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?

2. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?

3. How old was Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein in December of 1944?

4. 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”?

5. 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?

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