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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Heilbronn.
(c) Salzburg.
(d) Unterstein.

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

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?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(d) Captain Walker Hancock.

5. 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”?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Archibald MacLeish.
(c) Langdon Warner.
(d) Thomas Carr Howe, Jr.

6. On what date did George Stout arrive in Bernterode, Germany, to assess the mine there?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) April 16, 1945.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) May 1, 1945.

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

8. Cologne had been hit by how many repeated Allied bombing runs when George Stout and Walker Hancock entered the city in March of 1945?
(a) 164.
(b) 211.
(c) 262.
(d) 125.

9. 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.

10. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(c) Heilbronn, Germany.
(d) Aachen, Germany.

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

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

13. Who painted The Astronomer?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Johannes Vermeer.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Rembrandt.

14. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?
(a) 21.
(b) 10.
(c) 43.
(d) 16.

15. What was the name of the Heilbronn mine’s vice director in April of 1945?
(a) Archibald MacLeish.
(b) Dr. Hans Bauer.
(c) Heinrich Hoffman.
(d) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the “guide” that led George Stout and the others into Siegen, Germany on April 2, 1945?

2. Who received the French Legion of Honor on November 4, 1945?

3. The Hungarian crown jewels were discovered in an oil barrel sunk in marshland near what village in Bavaria?

4. 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”?

5. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?

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