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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the technical director at the mine in Altaussee?
(a) Christopher Isherwood.
(b) Eberhard Mayerhoffer.
(c) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.
(d) Heinrich Hoffman.

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

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

4. When did Monuments Men Robert Posey and Lincoln Kirstein arrive at Altaussee?
(a) May 1, 1945.
(b) May 29, 1945.
(c) April 12, 1945.
(d) May 12, 1945.

5. Who is credited with the following quote in the introduction to Part V: “The Aftermath”? “All the works of art for whose fate we still tremble will return to us, bringing the light of their beauty to attract, as before, pilgrims from every country and to inspire thoughts of peace.”
(a) Captain Walker Hancock.
(b) Rose Valland.
(c) Dr. Cesare Fasola.
(d) Private Harry Ettlinger.

6. 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.

7. When Hans Frank was apprehended by U.S. forces, he turned over how many volumes of his personal diaries to his captors?
(a) 10.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 43.

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

9. Before World War II, what had been the population of Cologne, Germany?
(a) Almost 100,000.
(b) Almost 800,000.
(c) Almost 250,000.
(d) Almost 300,000.

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

11. What was the official title of Hitler’s Nero Decree?
(a) Demolitions on Reich Territory Decree.
(b) Destruction of Impasse Decree.
(c) Interruption of Passage Decree.
(d) Third Reich Submergence Decree.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did James Rorimer first arrive at the southern German town of Heilbronn?

2. What does “semper fidelis” translate to in English?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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