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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(c) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(d) Private First Class Richard Courtney.

2. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) London, England.
(d) Newark, New Jersey.

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

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

5. Who is credited with the following quote in the introduction to Part V: “The Aftermath”? “All the works of art for whose fate we still tremble will return to us, bringing the light of their beauty to attract, as before, pilgrims from every country and to inspire thoughts of peace.”
(a) Rose Valland.
(b) Private Harry Ettlinger.
(c) Dr. Cesare Fasola.
(d) Captain Walker Hancock.

6. The city name of Salzburg translates from German to English to mean what?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Salt Castle.
(c) Sand Castle.
(d) Tall Castle.

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

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

9. Who was described as “Adolf Hitler’s close friend and personal photographer” in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?
(a) Heinrich Hoffman.
(b) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(c) Albrecht Dürer.
(d) Rose Valland.

10. On what date did the German forces surrender in Italy?
(a) March 18, 1945.
(b) May 2, 1945.
(c) March 20, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

11. Who received the French Legion of Honor on November 4, 1945?
(a) Captain Walker Hancock.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Private First Class Richard Courtney.
(d) Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer.

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

13. 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) 211.
(b) 125.
(c) 262.
(d) 164.

14. Where was Albrecht Dürer born?
(a) Trier, Germany.
(b) Siegen, Germany.
(c) Nuremberg, Germany.
(d) Heilbronn, Germany.

15. Who was Martin Bormann’s secretary in the bunker with Hitler and thus privy to most communiqués in the Third Reich, according to the author in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 51?
(a) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(b) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.
(c) Christopher Isherwood.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, in December of 1944, a devastating British air raid had killed how many civilians in Heilbronn?

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?

3. Who painted Landscape with the Good Samaritan?

4. When Stout and Hancock entered Cologne in March of 1945, Hancock assessed that there were less than how many citizens still left in the city?

5. Before Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather fled Germany in 1939, he was forced to stash his art collection in a storage facility near what town?

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