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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many gallons of water were leaked into the Heilbronn mine every day from the Neckar River?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 10,000.

2. Who was the head of the Mineralogical Department of the Natural History Museum, Vienna that supposedly sent a message alerting Major Pearson to the hidden treasures at Altaussee?
(a) Albrecht Gaiswinkler.
(b) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(d) Dr. Hermann Michel.

3. What was the name of Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather who fled Germany in 1939?
(a) Martin Kippenberger.
(b) Jörg Immendorff.
(c) Max Liebermann.
(d) Opa Oppenheimer.

4. What was the name of the local Nazi gouleiter (governor) at Altaussee that loaded crates of bombs into the salt mine where the relics were held?
(a) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(b) Heinrich Hoffman.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Hermann Göring.

5. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?
(a) 1540.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1600.

6. When Harry Ettlinger ordered a wall removed from the mine at Heilbronn in September of 1945, a chamber was discovered with long tables piled with bottles. What was inside the bottles?
(a) LSD.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Cyanide.
(d) Nitroglycerin.

7. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(c) Cleves, Germany.
(d) Salzburg, Austria.

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

9. Who was the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Major General John “Iron Mike” O’Daniel.
(d) Private First Class Richard Courtney.

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

11. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

12. When did Frederick William I die?
(a) 1740.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1725.
(d) 1640.

13. What German city did the Allied troops take over on Hitler’s birthday on April 20, 1945?
(a) Heilbronn.
(b) Nuremberg.
(c) Trier.
(d) Siegen.

14. Who was the operations commander at the mine in Heilbronn when Private Harry Ettlinger arrived in September of 1945?
(a) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(b) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Christopher Isherwood.
(d) Lieutenant Dale Ford.

15. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?
(a) 6,000.
(b) 1,540.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?

2. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?

3. Where was Albrecht Dürer born?

4. In July/August of 1945, a building at Marburg University was requisitioned for the collection of archives of the Monuments Men. Who was placed in charge of this facility?

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

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