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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the draft lecture for soldiers in 1944 that is excerpted in the opening of Part V: “The Aftermath”?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Captain Walter Huchthause.

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

5. What German term from Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 38 refers to the downfall of the gods?
(a) Hürtgen.
(b) Pötschen.
(c) Pöchmüller.
(d) Götterdämmerung.

6. Who painted St. Paul in Prison?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Albrecht Dürer.

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

8. Before World War II, what had been the population of Cologne, Germany?
(a) Almost 100,000.
(b) Almost 800,000.
(c) Almost 250,000.
(d) Almost 300,000.

9. The basis of the English word “salary” derives from what substance once used as money?
(a) Shale.
(b) Sand.
(c) Salad.
(d) Salt.

10. What was the name of the 70-pound Holocaust survivor that was “adopted” by Harry Ettlinger’s detachment?
(a) Hertz.
(b) Cleo.
(c) Ike.
(d) Eppie.

11. Who was the general director of the Altaussee mining operations in April of 1945?
(a) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(b) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.

12. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

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) Trier, Germany.
(b) Baden-Baden, Germany.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Bonn, Germany.

14. 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) Hermann Göring.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By June 4, 1945, how many repositories had been discovered in the U.S. Seventh Army territory alone?

2. Who was the chief of Hitler’s security police and the second-highest-ranking member of the SS in May of 1945?

3. 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?

4. The concentration camp at Buchenwald was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on what date?

5. Who was the soldier that smashed the artwork in the home of a former Nazi official in March of 1945 because he was enraged at the Red Cross care packages found there?

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