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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Harry Ettlinger send his grandfather’s art collection once he recovered it following the war?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) London, England.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) New York, New York.

2. In July/August of 1945, a building at Marburg University was requisitioned for the collection of archives of the Monuments Men. Who was placed in charge of this facility?
(a) Captain Walter Huchthause.
(b) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(c) Captain Walker Hancock.
(d) Private First Class Lincoln Kirstein.

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

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

5. 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) 211.
(c) 262.
(d) 125.

6. Who painted Lady with an Ermine?
(a) Albrecht Dürer.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

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

8. 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) March 6, 1944.
(b) March 18, 1945.
(c) September 17, 1940.
(d) July 17, 1944.

9. 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) Christopher Isherwood.
(d) Dr. Helmut von Hummel.

10. One of the items that was returned from the repositories was the famous stained-glass windows of what cathedral, which the French considered a national treasure?
(a) The Reims Cathedral.
(b) St. Stephen's Cathedral.
(c) The Burgos Cathedral.
(d) The Strasbourg Cathedral.

11. What was the nickname of the Third Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army?
(a) “The Rough Riders.”
(b) “The Rock of the Marne.”
(c) “The Albatross of the West.”
(d) “The Rolling Stone.”

12. As Hermann Göring made his way toward his estate at Mauterndorf in May of 1945, his artwork was in transit to what location?
(a) Salzburg.
(b) Heilbronn.
(c) Unterstein.
(d) Trier.

13. On what date did Albert Speer convince Hitler to change his Nero Decree from “total destruction” of nonindustrial sites to “crippling them lastingly”?
(a) March 30, 1945.
(b) July 17, 1944.
(c) March 18, 1945.
(d) March 19, 1945.

14. On what date did James Rorimer first arrive at the southern German town of Heilbronn?
(a) September 7, 1944.
(b) April 16, 1945.
(c) March 20, 1945.
(d) April 12, 1945.

15. When was the Reich Sword of Prince Albrecht forged?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1540.
(d) 1600.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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”?

4. 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”?

5. Who was the “guide” that led George Stout and the others into Siegen, Germany on April 2, 1945?

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