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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Hermann Göring made his way toward his estate at Mauterndorf in May of 1945, his artwork was in transit to what location?
(a) Trier.
(b) Unterstein.
(c) Heilbronn.
(d) Salzburg.

2. When was the Dachau concentration camp opened?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1936.

3. Where were the famed Amber Panels of Peter the Great looted from by the Nazis?
(a) Catherine Palace.
(b) The Jeu de Paume Museum.
(c) The Guggenheim Museum.
(d) The Suermondt Museum.

4. When was the city of Munich founded?
(a) 1495.
(b) 1158.
(c) 1325.
(d) 1265.

5. How old did Adolf Hitler turn on April 20, 1945?
(a) 56.
(b) 52.
(c) 65.
(d) 49.

6. What is the valley along the border between France and Germany that Captain Robert Posey and Private Lincoln Kirstein were traveling along in March of 1945, according to the author in Part III: “Germany,” Chapter 32?
(a) The San Fernando Valley.
(b) The Saied Valley.
(c) The Black Valley.
(d) The Saar Valley.

7. Where did Walker Hancock locate Weyres, Count Wolff-Metternich’s assistant, in March of 1945?
(a) Bad Godesberg, Germany.
(b) Siegen, Germany.
(c) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

8. For what publication did Lincoln Kirstein write an article in 1945 that stated of the Altausee mine that “so many witnesses told so many stories that the more information we accumulated the less truth it seemed to contain”?
(a) The Atlantic.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Town and Country.
(d) The New Yorker.

9. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?
(a) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(b) Christopher Isherwood.
(c) Heinrich Hoffman.
(d) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.

10. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) “The Rolling Stone.”
(b) “The Rock of the Marne.”
(c) “The Rough Riders.”
(d) “The Albatross of the West.”

11. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Alice.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Sarah.

12. How many paintings were discovered at the repository in the Altausee mine?
(a) 2,356.
(b) 6,577.
(c) 5,215.
(d) 9,213.

13. Before Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather fled Germany in 1939, he was forced to stash his art collection in a storage facility near what town?
(a) Bonn, Germany.
(b) Trier, Germany.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Baden-Baden, Germany.

14. What decade was it when Ernst Kubin located the source material to determine what really happened at Altaussee?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1950s.

15. What painting by Raphael was officially listed as missing among the masterpieces stolen from the Czartoryski Collection in Cracow?
(a) Girl with a Pearl Earring.
(b) Portrait of a Young Man.
(c) Madonna on a Blanket.
(d) Child in the Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Heilbronn mine’s vice director in April of 1945?

2. What Monuments Man wrote of the discovery of the Bruges Madonna, “the light of our lamps played over the soft folds of the Madonna’s robe, the delicate modeling of her face. Her grave eyes looked down, seemed only half aware of the sturdy Child nestling close against her, one hand firmly held in hers”?

3. Whose name was on the casket that was adorned with a wreath and red ribbons in the mine at Bernterode?

4. The city name of Salzburg translates from German to English to mean what?

5. At what establishment did Private Harry Ettlinger stay with 20 or so other enlisted men in September 1945 in Heilbronn?

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