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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Langdon Warner.
(b) Thomas Carr Howe, Jr.
(c) Archibald MacLeish.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

2. What is referred to in Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 37 as “the great lost civilization of Africa”?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Mesopotamia.
(c) Timbuktu.
(d) Nairobi.

3. What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s personal assistant?
(a) Monsieur George.
(b) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(c) Johannes Vermeer.
(d) Martin Bormann.

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

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

7. How long was the memo that Albert Speer composed on the apocalyptic effects of Hitler’s planned “scorched earth” policy?
(a) 10 pages.
(b) 22 pages.
(c) 4 pages.
(d) 16 pages.

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

9. What was the name of Harry Ettlinger’s grandfather who fled Germany in 1939?
(a) Jörg Immendorff.
(b) Martin Kippenberger.
(c) Opa Oppenheimer.
(d) Max Liebermann.

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

11. What was the name of the Austrian that claimed to have been parachuted into the area [of Altaussee] by the British to organize resistance?
(a) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(b) Dr. Hermann Michel.
(c) Albrecht Gaiswinkler.
(d) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.

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

13. At what establishment did Private Harry Ettlinger stay with 20 or so other enlisted men in September 1945 in Heilbronn?
(a) Hotel Torbräu.
(b) Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski München.
(c) The Kronprinz Hotel.
(d) Le Méridien.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cologne had been hit by how many repeated Allied bombing runs when George Stout and Walker Hancock entered the city in March of 1945?

2. When was the Red-White-Red-Book published by the Austrian government?

3. When was the city of Munich founded?

4. Where was British Monuments Man Ronald Balfour when he was killed by shrapnel?

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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