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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) March 20, 1945.
(d) September 7, 1944.

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

3. On what date did Albert Speer receive word that four officers had been executed on Hitler’s orders because they had not blown up the bridge at Remagen?
(a) July 17, 1944.
(b) March 18, 1945.
(c) September 17, 1940.
(d) March 6, 1944.

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

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

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

7. Where was the last known office of the former Paris Kunstschutz leader Count Wolff-Metternich said to be in March of 1945?
(a) Karlsruhe, Germany.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Bonn, Germany.
(d) Siegen, Germany.

8. 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?
(a) Dr. Emmerich Pöchmüller.
(b) Dr. Hermann Michel.
(c) Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
(d) Albrecht Gaiswinkler.

9. 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.

10. Out of 90,000 residents of Trier, Germany, about how many remained when the Monuments Men came to the city to assess the damage from the battles there?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

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

13. 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) LSD.
(d) Coca-Cola.

14. Once the former Nazi headquarters in Munich (the Munich Collecting Point) was filled to capacity with artwork in July of 1945, James Rorimer secured another building of almost equal size to hold the relics in what city?
(a) Wiesbaden.
(b) Bonn.
(c) Bad Godesberg.
(d) Cleves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Walker Hancock locate Weyres, Count Wolff-Metternich’s assistant, in March of 1945?

2. On what date did the German forces surrender in Italy?

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

4. Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen was on the road east of what town when he was killed by gunfire?

5. What word from Part V: “The Aftermath,” Chapter 51 means leaving no doubt or ambiguity?

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