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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had become James Rorimer’s personal translator in the summer of 1945?
(a) Captain Robert Posey.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

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

3. By June 4, 1945, how many repositories had been discovered in the U.S. Seventh Army territory alone?
(a) 175.
(b) 76.
(c) 212.
(d) 59.

4. When did the U.S. forces catch up with Hans Frank, the notorious Nazi-governor-general of occupied Poland?
(a) May 4, 1945.
(b) April 12, 1945.
(c) March 20, 1945.
(d) May 2, 1945.

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

6. Almost how many women and men had served in the multinational MFAA effort in WWII?
(a) 100.
(b) 350.
(c) 500.
(d) 450.

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

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) 262.
(c) 211.
(d) 125.

9. 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) Cyanide.
(b) Nitroglycerin.
(c) Coca-Cola.
(d) LSD.

10. The Hungarian crown jewels were discovered in an oil barrel sunk in marshland near what village in Bavaria?
(a) Asnières.
(b) Trier.
(c) Mattsee.
(d) Vienna.

11. How many miles from Salzberg is the Pötschen Pass located?
(a) 44.
(b) 10.
(c) 32.
(d) 65.

12. 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) Hermann Göring.
(c) Heinrich Hoffman.
(d) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

13. What Monuments Man once commented that Hitler “wrote a book called Mein Kampf. And if people had just read it carefully, every single thing that’s happened was already predicted… the whole Jewish situation is there in clear writing in ink”?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) S. Lane Faison, Jr.
(d) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the official title of Hitler’s Nero Decree?

2. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?

3. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?

4. When was the city of Munich founded?

5. Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

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