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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did James Rorimer first arrive at the southern German town of Heilbronn?
(a) April 16, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) September 7, 1944.
(d) March 20, 1945.

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. Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?
(a) Albrecht Dürer.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Rembrandt.

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

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

6. Whose name was on the casket that was adorned with a wreath and red ribbons in the mine at Bernterode?
(a) Heinrich Hoffman’s.
(b) The Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach’s.
(c) Dr. Hans Bauer’s.
(d) Adolf Hitler’s.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 40,000.

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

14. What word from Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 51 means leaving no doubt or ambiguity?
(a) Exemplary.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Unequivocal.
(d) Carnal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was described as “Adolf Hitler’s close friend and personal photographer” in Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 53?

2. How many miles from Salzberg is the Pötschen Pass located?

3. 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”?

4. What was the name of Robert Posey’s wife?

5. 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?

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