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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Altaussee, Austria.
(b) Linz, Austria.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Vienna, Austria.

3. 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?
(a) November, 1944.
(b) October, 1942.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) September, 1943.

4. 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.

5. On what date did Harry Ettlinger ship out to basic training?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) December 7, 1941.
(c) August 11, 1944.
(d) August 27, 1942.

6. Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was detained in Mont Saint-Michel by American soldiers because he was suspected to be what?
(a) A Russian spy.
(b) A Spanish spy.
(c) A French spy.
(d) A German spy.

7. On what date did George Stout breathe “the first warm air of a British spring,” according to the author in the beginning of Part I: “The Mission,” Chapter 8?
(a) April 16, 1943.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) March 18, 1945.
(d) August 27, 1942.

8. 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) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(c) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.
(d) Captain Robert Posey.

9. 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?
(a) Lieutenant George Stout.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel John Bryan Ward-Perkins.
(d) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.

10. 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, 1944.
(b) October, 1942.
(c) January, 1943.
(d) March, 1944.

11. When was the Madonna of La Gleize carved?
(a) The 1500s.
(b) The 1300s.
(c) The 1400s.
(d) The 1200s.

12. What museum in Aachen had Captain Walter Hancock spent the past month at as he attempted to determine where the works of art had been moved, according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(c) The Guggenheim Museum.
(d) The Suermondt Museum.

13. How old was the oldest of the Monuments Men, according to the author in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) 66.
(b) 72.
(c) 45.
(d) 56.

14. 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) February 15, 1944.
(c) March 6, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1944.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Who rallied the survivors of the attack at Omaha Beach with the rallying cry, “Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out of here,” according to the author in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 10?

3. Where did Harry Ettlinger attend basic training for the Army?

4. The author states in the introduction to Part I: “The Mission” that the Monuments Men were a group of men and women from how many nations?

5. What Irish writer and who lived in France described Saint-Lô as “the Capital of the Ruins” after the Allied victory there?

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