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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 300,000.
(b) Almost 800,000.
(c) Almost 100,000.
(d) Almost 250,000.

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

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

4. 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) Heinrich Hoffman.
(b) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(c) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.
(d) Christopher Isherwood.

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

6. When was the city of Munich founded?
(a) 1325.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1265.
(d) 1158.

7. 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) 40,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 25,000.

8. 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 Saar Valley.
(b) The Saied Valley.
(c) The San Fernando Valley.
(d) The Black Valley.

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

10. 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) Unterstein.
(d) Salzburg.

11. In addition to the mine, a glass factory was also running at Heilbronn when Harry Ettlinger arrived in September of 1945. What products were being produced at the glass factory?
(a) Automobile windows.
(b) Animal knickknacks.
(c) Coca-Cola bottles.
(d) Submarine windows.

12. Who was the “guide” that led George Stout and the others into Siegen, Germany on April 2, 1945?
(a) Lamont Moore.
(b) Vicar Stephany.
(c) Gauleiter Eigruber.
(d) Monsieur George.

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

14. What German term from Part IV: “The Void,” Chapter 38 refers to the downfall of the gods?
(a) Pöchmüller.
(b) Hürtgen.
(c) Götterdämmerung.
(d) Pötschen.

15. When was the Red-White-Red-Book published by the Austrian government?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. forces catch up with Hans Frank, the notorious Nazi-governor-general of occupied Poland?

2. 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”?

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

4. Albert Speer was what official party member number of the Nazi Party?

5. 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?

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